"The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field."

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Source : "Johnny Manziel attracts thousands to first Cleveland Browns training camp". www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2014.

Jimmy Haslam

#Leadership Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Athlete Quotes

“There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.”
“A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.”
“The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning pointâ€”for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.”
“I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.”
“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”

Source : Interview with Carlo Pescio, www.eptacom.net. June 1997.
“I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.”
“Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin
“Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.”

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