"Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different."

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Source : "Sorry, Charles, but NBA stars couldn't cut it". Interview with Mike Sando, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

Warren Moon

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“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”

Source : Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)
“Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.”
“Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened.”
“Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.”
“Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.”
“The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.”
“One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.”
“If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again”

Source : "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book edited by James L. Harmon, 2007.

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