"A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning."

“Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said 'Loud, Louder, and Loudest.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

“You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm not sure that the songs help me figure anything out so much as they're a distillation of the original question.”

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“Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails”

Source : Louis Macneice, “Sunday Morning”

“A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.”

“We all get attached to frayed towels, mismatched sheets and shapeless pillows, associating them with years of comfort, but they have ceased to be functional! As for the plethora of hotel freebies, gather them in a basket to be offered as a hospitality service to your overnight guests. They'll be pleased by your thoughtfulness-and amazed that you're so organized.”

“It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.”

Source : "Olympic Q & A: Katherine Reutter, USA Speedskating". Interview with Jason Wachob, www.mindbodygreen.com. February 17, 2010.

“I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going out with a missing Portuguese criminal and your friends don't want to be your friend anymore, it makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the women are treated like social outcasts. Anyway, I don't care. I am going to quietly read a book all weekend and listen to classical music.”

Source : Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

“When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.”

Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”