"The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing."

-- Red Grange

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“...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too.”
“You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.”
“Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.”
“Mistakes are doorways to discovery.”

Source : Sam Horn (2004). “Tongue Fu! at School: 30 Ways to Get Along Better with Teachers, Principals, Students, and Parents”, p.17, Taylor Trade Publications
“Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.”
“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press
“My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.”
“I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.”

Source : "Why Sade is bigger in the US than Adele" by Sophie Heawood, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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