"The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do.""

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Source : Source: articles.latimes.com

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“To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
“Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing”
“When you are willing to shine the light of love onto the parts that you are not proud of - onto the unaccepted parts, the unloved parts, the unwanted emotions, into all the darkened corners of your soul - love will suffuse them, embrace them, until you are left as nothing but love itself. Love arises when you expose everything.”
“Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?”
“One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.”
“Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances than compensation itself. When someone is promoted, a promotion that everyone could see coming because of an excellent record, the entire department is stimulated. For it is clear, then, that promotions are based on merit. A promotion that seems to come out of the blue, which is always the case when no one knows what the next fellow is doing, causes nothing but resentment and a further weakening of the will to work.”
“Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.”

Source : Julia Alvarez (2010). “In the Time of the Butterflies”, p.76, Algonquin Books
“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”

Source : "The British System of Government". Book by Dilwyn Thomas, 1965.

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