"It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and frustration of sport should come from the performance itself, not the score. While he is playing, the worst thing a player can think about in terms of concentration - and therefore of success - is losing. The next worst is winning."

-- John Wooden

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“Deep down in your heart know that all is well. Understand that the Universe is your friend and can never hurt you. It is the substratum of all existence which is love! When you develop a loving consciousness there can be no problems. Love takes care of everything. Love is the same as absolute awareness, pure intelligence, or the power of God. When you have enough love inside, there are truly no problems. Problems only arise when you believe you are separate and lacking love.”
“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
“I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I could overcome those obstacles,”

Source : "Kirk Gibson has Parkinson's, vows to 'meet challenge" by George Sipple, www.freep.com. April 28, 2015.
“One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.234, Spectra
“Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.”
“Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.”
“I am an instigator of the national energies.”

Source : "For My Legionaries" by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, York, SC: Liberty Bell Publications, 2003.
“That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.”

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