"Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports."

-- Anita DeFrantz

#Cute Quotes #Girl Quotes #Sports Quotes

“Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.”

Source : J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.104, Ravenio Books
“I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that?”
“In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game”

Source : Morgan Wootten, Joe Wootten (2012). “Coaching Basketball Successfully-3rd Edition”, p.15, Human Kinetics
“Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond”
“If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.”
“Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.”
“Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.”

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