"Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results."

“The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics.”

“The first day of school is bullshit”

Source : Lauren Barnholdt (2012). “Sometimes It Happens”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

“Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.”

“Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.”

“As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’”

“If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.”

“Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns out not to be, not to be impossible, in other words, but possible after all. If this were really true, then miracles would be the most ordinary things in the world, the most uninspiring things in the world, and what can one expect from people who have never been anything but ordinary and uninspired.”

“Teaching is listening, learning is talking”