"I want everybody to feel he has a chance to get into a game when he comes to the ballpark. I play guys when I want to so they'll be ready when I have to. I don't consider myself a motivator of players. I think it's an insult to a ballplayer to have to be motivated."

-- Gene Mauch

#Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Games Quotes

“Sun Tzu's ideas as expressed above had a profound effect on Ho Chi Minh, who sought to defeat both the French and the Americans without recourse to violence - or at least to conventional battle tactics.”
“He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.”

Source : "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.
“Killing time is the chief end of our society.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
“He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.”

Source : Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.9, Aeterna Press
“We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it likes. We don't actually need 'religion' in order to have a relationship with The Holy Spirit. Too many wars an violence over religion.We need to see it's all the same spirit and we are part of that spirit so we shouldn't be fighting over what name we call it. It's a free bird.”
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”
“It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard for the student and help is needed.”
“I hope to be back in management in the next future”

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