"If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. It ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game last it's my last but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that? Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I honestly do but we're talking about practice. We're talking about practice man. We're talking about practice. We're talking about practice. We're not talking about the game. We're talking about practice. When you come to the arena, and you see me play, you've seen me play right, you've seen me give everything I've got, but we're talking about practice right now." - A.I.
Be not afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them - Twelfth Night Vini, Vidi, Vici - Julius Caesar If I lose mine honour, I lose myself - Antony and Cleopatra Greatness is a rarefied air one must be taught to breathe. Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company - Mark Twain Empires are not brought down from outside forces, they are destroyed by the weaknesses from within Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war - Marc Antony (Julius Caesar)
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human. Not one single truth has ever been arrived at without people first having talked a dozen reams of nonsense, even ten dozen reams of it, and that's an honorable thing in its own way; well, but we can't talk nonsense with out own brains! Talk nonsense to me, by all means, but do it with your own brain, and I shall love you for it. To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's; in the first instance you behave like a human being, while in the second you are merely being a parrot! The truth won't go away, but life can be knocked on the head and done in. I can think of some examples. Well, and what's our position now? We're all of us, every one of us without exception, when it comes to the fields of learning, development, thought, invention, ideals, ambition, liberalism, reason, experience, and every, every, every other field you can think of, in the very lowest preparatory form of the gymnasium! We've got accustomed to making do with other people's intelligence - we're soaked in it! - Razumikhin in Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. "Don't become a monster in order to defeat a monster." - Bono
"I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday. " -- Lester Burnham in American Beauty
"I celebrate a victory when I start walking off of the field. By the time I reach the locker room, I'm done." -Tom Osborne, University of Nebraska "The worst thing that can be done to someone you love is to do something for them they can and should do for themselves." -Abraham Lincoln "In a world of give and take, there are not many willing to give what it takes." -Clebe McCleary "Webster indicates that success is the accumulation of material possessions. I don't think so. I think success is a peace of mind which can only be attained through self-satisfaction.. knowing that you've made the effort to do the best of which you're capable. We have no control over an opponent, but we should have control over ourselves. All we can do is live up to our potential. It takes hard work, enthusiasm. You need to be conditioned and know what you're doing. You need good skills. You must have consideration for others and lastly, You need a competitive spirit. You can't be afraid of a tough situation. You must enjoy it. And realize that the most difficult tasks bring the most satisfaction." -John Wooden
<div class="quote_poster">Iggy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.</div> I like that one a lot. Also... "Not trying your best is cheating yourself" - dont know who said this
"You'll lose money chasing women, but you'll never lose women chasing money"- some guy in i think i love my wife
Probably the dumbest quote of this thread, but I like it so why not? : "Back then, they aint want my, now im hot, hoes all on me" - Mike Jones
BUMP CITY! "Here I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all creation, and I realized that the joy I had sought in you was not only secreted within you, but breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the metallic yet tender drone of the wind, in the autumn clouds bloated with rain. I realized that the world does not represent a struggle at all, or a predaceous sequence of chance events, but shimmering bliss, beneficent trepidation, a gift bestowed on us and unappreciated." - Vladimir Nabokov "L'amore giunger." - Luciano Pavarotti "Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are, One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Alfred Tennyson "This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization. It's the sound of the unlocking and the lift away. Your love, will be safe with me." - Bon Iver "Damnant quod non intelligunt." - Latin saying "I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." - Charles Bukowski
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein Pretty good one
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." --Oscar Wilde "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." --Lucretius
"Let the lovin' take a hold of me, 'cause it will if you let it." - Bradley Nowell "There he goes [Dr. Gonzo]. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. " - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -Aristotle You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. -Martin Luther
