"I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?"

--

Paul Kariya

#Sports Quotes #College Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.”
“No matter how hard you're going, you can always go harder.”
“To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.”
“My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.”
“For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.”
“Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.”

Source : 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'
“Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can”
“A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.”

Source : "The quiet American" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2006.

You may also like:

Chris Pronger
Ice hockey player
Eric Lindros
Ice hockey player
Joe Sakic
Ice hockey player
Mike Modano
Ice hockey player
Peter Forsberg
Ice hockey player
Scott Niedermayer
Coach
Scott Stevens
Ice hockey player
Teemu Selanne
Ice hockey player
Wayne Gretzky
Ice hockey player