"In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?"

-- Bob Cousy

#Leadership Quotes #Sports Quotes #Winning Quotes

“The opposite of compromise is character.”

Source : "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.
“I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."”
“It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.”
“I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.”
“Don't try to make me grow up before my timeâ€¦”
“Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.”

Source : "Arborophilia". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2005.
“Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils”

Source : Narragansett Club, Providence, Roger Williams (1866). “Publications of the Narragansett Club: First series”, p.52
“We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”

Source : Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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