"My recruiting key - I looked for PEOPLE first, athletes second. I wanted people with a sound value system as you cannot buy values. You're only as good as your values. I learned early on that you do not put greatness into people...but somehow try to pull it out."

-- Herb Brooks

#Inspirational Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Hockey Quotes

“There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.”
“Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.”
“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.”

Source : Forbes, Volume 176, Editions 7-13, p. 79, 2005.
“Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.”
“Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.”
“The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment's prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments.”
“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.”
“There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.”

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