Message of the Day Quotes Part III
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“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
John Wooden
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“I’m no wizard, and I don’t like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don’t want to be thought of in that way.”
John Wooden
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“My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.”
Hakeem Olajuwon
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“He never makes you go home hating him, you can hate him all day, but at the end he lets you know it’s family. He gets that across. Some people need to hate him to be successful, and some people need to get along with him to be successful. He knows the difference.”
Elijah Johnson
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@globaljaybird These are great quotes! thanks.
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“A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.”
- Chuck Noll (Steelers Coach)
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“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
-Phil Jackson (NBA Coach)
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
- John Wooden (Basketball Coach)
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“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”
- Tim Duncan (NBA MVP)
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“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.”
- Alex Karras (Football Player)
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“I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.”
- Bruce Jenner (Track and Field Athlete, Motivational Speaker)
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“When I step onto the court, I don’t have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It’s like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.”
-Michael Jordan (Basketball Legend)
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“Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”
- Dan Reeves (Former NFL athlete and head coach)
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“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
- Vernon Law (Former Pirates pitcher)
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“If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.”
- Vince Lombardi (Legendary Football Coach)
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“You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
- Bobby Knight (Winningist Div. I Basketball Coach)
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Random internet poster,“your a idiot.”
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I don’t hate all the time, but when I do hate, I hate Missouri Tiger fans.
Stay Victorious my friends
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I give all my players lots of development minutes: they’re called “practices”.
Bill Self (as made up by me)
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Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin
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“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
- Phil Jackson
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“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
Frank Zappa
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“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Mike Tyson
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“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.” –Heraclitus
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“Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.” –Heraclitus
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“Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.” –Heraclitus
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“Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.”
–Diogenes
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“Many historical truths are false.” –jaybate
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“A conspiracy theory is whatever someone is incentivized not to want to hear.” --jaybate
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“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.” –Diogenes
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“All empires require an endless string of weaker opponents, or they collapse from within.”–jaybate
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“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” –Epictetus
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@jaybate 1.0 A variance on my own thought that " A conspiracy theory is any theory that does not agree with mine ". nuleafjhawk. lol
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“All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.” –Epictetus
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Your’s is the better turned epigram. Thanks for sharing it.
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“Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.” –Epicurus
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“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY & they meet at the bar.”
Drew Carey
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“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
Arthur C. Clarke
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“Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.”
Salvador Dali
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“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(this one freaked me out a little - whenever i wake up in the night with bad dreams or whatever, it’s ALWAYS 3:00 am)
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“You can’t write a good song about a whorehouse unless you’ve been in one.”
Woody Guthrie
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
Bill Walton
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What is a soul? It’s like electricity - we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.
Ray Charles
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
B. Franklin
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“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.”
- Albert Szent-Gyvrgyi, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
…Nah, it ain’t that tough Ben.
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Football is a expensive, ritualized way to give college students brain damage.
–jaybate 1.0
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You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can fool all of the KU football fans all of the time.
