"I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me."

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Source : "Alonzo Mourning: The Edge of Sports Interview". Interview with Dave Zirin, bleacherreport.com. January 27, 2009.

Alonzo Mourning

#Decision Quotes #Helping Quotes #Individual Quotes

“We are born of love. Love is our mother.”
“Well, what did I expect? S&M didn't stand for soft and mushy?”
“For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.”
“My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.”
“Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.”
“Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.”
“I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.”
“If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.”

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