"As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid."

-- Irvin S. Cobb

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“but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
“It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.”

Source : Claude McKay (1973). “The passion of Claude McKay: selected poetry and prose, 1912-1948”, Schocken
“I dont believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.”
“I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.”
“Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn't make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.”
“None of us makes it through this life without problems and challengesâ€”and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we are here to learn and grow from such events in our lives. We know that there are times when we will suffer, when we will grieve, and when we will be saddened. However, we are told, â€œAdam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.â€ How might we have joy in our lives, despite all that we may face? Again from the scriptures: â€œWherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you.”
“Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.”
“I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.”

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