"Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority figure on a team than the coach. Needless to say, in today's warped, self-indulgent climate, too many players couldn't care less about appeasing the coach."

-- Phil Jackson

#Team Quotes #Player Quotes #Self Quotes

“Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!”

Source : Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”
“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.”
“The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.”
“"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make”
“Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.”
“She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that--impossible as it seemed--it was a fox.”
“I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.”
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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