"I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones."

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Bill Veeck

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“I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.”

Source : "A Runner’s Belief: God Is His Coach" By Jeré Longman, www.nytimes.com. July 14, 2012.
“We can't predict all the struggles and storms in life, not even the ones just around the next corner, but as persons of faith and hope, we know beyond a shadow of any doubt that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true and the best is yet to come.”
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”
“Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.”
“I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.”
“Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.”
“every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues.”
“If I even imagined someone talking to my husband too close, I would beat the crap out of them.”

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