"The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win."

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John Kessel

#Sports Quotes #Wise Quotes #Winning Quotes

“There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.”

Source : "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.
“It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,”

Source : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress
“I look at him as some other person I need to beat.”
“I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.”
“There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.”
“I want to thank my amateur trainer. We started at the bottom together. Just because you were born at the bottom doesn't mean you have to stay at the bottom. After Saturday night, we're going to put that bologna away and go get a steak.”
“In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.”

Source : James R. Newman (1960). “The World of Mathematics”, p.367, Рипол Классик
“I will always love gymnastics.”

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