"You are worth so much more than points on a scoreboard or wins vs. losses. The best athletes I know are also some of the best people I've ever met."

“If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.”

Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “A Cloud In Trousers - Epilogue”

“Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.9, Lulu.com

“We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.”

“(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.”

“If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.”

“What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.”

“I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.”

“There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.”