"It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field."

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Source : Tiki Barber, Gil Reavill (2008). “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

Tiki Barber

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“I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.”
“I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.”
“The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, â€˜Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heavenâ€™ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.”
“The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.”
“A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know and understand. A final understanding could probably only begin upon permanent separation, or death. This is why we come back to certain poems, as we do to places or people, to experience and re-experience, to see ourselves for who we truly are, and to continue to be changed.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It turns out your conscious mind â€” the part you think of as you â€” is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.”

Source : "Stray Questions for: David Eagleman". Interview with Blake Wilson, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. July 10, 2009.
“The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
“Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.”

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