"There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does"

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Source : Dean Smith, John Kilgo, Sally Jenkins (2000). “A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball”, p.206, Random House

Dean Smith

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“My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.”
“I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.”
“There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.”
“The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.164
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
“Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.”

Source : Interview With Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.
“The visa thing can be an issue, if you're going to work for someone here make sure they will help you with this. However, so that you know what you need make sure you research the visa issue on your own. A 90 day visa is not a problem and I saw six month visas being offered through the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, but nothing about one year visas or temporary residence cards. Of course you are probably aware that you need some sort of visa in advance just to gain entry into Vietnam.”

Source : Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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