"The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions"

-- Brad Stevens

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“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”
“Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!”

Source : William Joyce, Laura Geringer (2011). “Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José Padilha, one of creators of our show, that's where the style comes from. It has a heavy narrator. But I thought about it a lot. You [the viewers] have to work for the show, unless you're bilingual. It's a really aggressive type of filming, it's engaging, you've got to read.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me . . . I always knew that some day I should defy it.”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.”
“The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.”
“There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.”

Source : Obert Skye (2009). “The Wrath of Ezra”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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