"Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries."

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James J. Martin

#Player Quotes #Games Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.”
“Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.”
“The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.”
“It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.”
“I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.”
“Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.”
“My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.”
“My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.”

Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.173, Faber & Faber

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