"Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact."

-- John Wooden

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“Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.”
“The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.”

Source : Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.158, Peachpit Press
“Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.”

Source : Fanny Howe (2003). “Gone: Poems”, p.25, Univ of California Press
“I always wanted to be an NBA ball player since I was eight years old. I kind of went on the road of sports and I ended up on the stage with the microphone. For me it's like a dream come full circle. I think some people do it because their agent tells them it's a good look to get some publicity. But myself, I eat, live, and breathe basketball.”
“There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?”
“As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.”
“We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.”
“And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.”

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