"I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and deserved to start. But if I knew all the misery it was going to cause me in the weeks following the game, I'd have thought long and hard about it. The players from Kentucky were gracious about it, but many of their fans and people from other parts of the country did not want to see it."

-- Don Haskins

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“I know what tournaments I'm going to be in, and I know that I don't have to qualify for pretty much anything. That's a huge relief. But I don't really set that many goals, I just want to have fun out there and enjoy what I do. When a win comes, a win comes.”

Source : Source: www.golfdigest.com
“The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.”
“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.”
“What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.”
“And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done”
“Book critics certainly are judges who wield a tremendous amount of power in terms of whether or not a book will reach a wider audience. That's one of the reasons why I try to give coverage to books written by Latinx writers; too many worthwhile works of literature do not get the kind of coverage they deserve, and I've certainly seen that with respect to books written by writers of color. But there are some wonderful, diverse writers out there who mentor and otherwise support those voices that often have been ignored by much of the mainstream press.”
“Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?”
“Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.”

Source : Leanne Payne (1999). “Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal”, p.121, Baker Books

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