"It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans."

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Source : Janice Kaplan (1979). “Women and Sports: 2”, Viking Adult

Janice Kaplan

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“Our recent pop-music icons, even the most radical ones, like BjÃ¶rk or Caetano Veloso, often have to present themselves as happy and make positive work because they have such a large young fan base to whom they feel responsible. They can't be too negative. Now, criticism is basically a negative act. As you know, critics are neither pop stars nor popular. They are the gripers. But someone has to speak up and say no to this and yes to that.”

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“If 3,000 people perished in the World Trade Center attacks and the Jewish population is 10 percent, you show me records of 300 Jewish people dying in the World Trade Centerâ€¦Weâ€™re daring anyone to dispute its truth. They got their people out.”
“It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.”
“I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.”
“There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.”
“It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd just forget about you. They wouldn't even waste the time hating you.”
“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]”
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

Source : Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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