"Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing."

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Source : Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

Larry Bird

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“Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus.”
“Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.”
“If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.”
“Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.”
“The quickest way to change the world is to be of service to others. Show that your love can make a difference in the lives of people and thereby someone else's love can make a difference in your life. By each of us doing that and working together we change the world one inner person at a time.”
“I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.”
“May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.”

Source : FaceBook post by T. Thorn Coyle from Dec 13, 2011

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