"My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions"

-- John Wooden

#Basketball Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Defense Quotes

“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
“ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.”
“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!”
“The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies. A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love's lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling.”
“Imagine if I had a real weapon!”
“The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.”
“Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier. This comes about in many ways: by their lightening each other's burdens through mutual help; by constant and faithful love; by having all their possessions in common; and by the heavenly grace which flows from the sacrament.”
“Each Australian is a Ulysses.”

Source : Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.255, The Miegunyah Press

You may also like:

Adolph Rupp
Basketball Coach
Bill Walton
Basketball player
Bobby Knight
Basketball Coach
Dean Smith
Basketball Coach
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball player
Michael Jordan
Basketball player
Mike Krzyzewski
Basketball Coach
Pat Summitt
Basketball Coach
Vince Lombardi
Football player