Message of the Day Quotes Part III
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New thread for message of the day quotes. Give us your best quotes… KU ball, sports, or otherwise of interest…
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“Life itself is a quotation.” --Jorge Luis Borges
“Short sentences drawn from long experience.” --Miguel de Cervantes
“Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk…” --William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, c.1598
"A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring. --Sholom Aleichem
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” --Niels Bohr
“The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.”–Mark Twain
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”–George Bernard Shaw
“I really didn’t say everything I said.”–Yogi Berra
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“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
- Yogi Berra
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And another Yogi-ism, tho I might not have recalled the proper syntax: “It ain’t over til it’s over.”
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@REHawk More Yogi:
“Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?”
“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
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My father said this of his father. “The older I got, the smarter he got.”
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@JayhawkRock78-Profound wisdom for sure.
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@globaljaybird thanks Global. he was a huge KU bBall fan. Sure miss talking to him about it. The smartest thing I’ve done lately was fly back and take him to Late Night at the PHOG.Very fitting our last event was a trip to AFH.
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“If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.”
~ Bobby Knight
“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”
~ Hank Aaron
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”
~ Jack Dempsey
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
~Michael Jordan
“When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.”
~ Any guesses? Of course, Bobby Knight
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When you come to a fork on the road, take it - Yogi Berra
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“There has never been a sadness that couldn’t be cured by breakfast food.”
Ron Swanson
Parks & Recreation
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“Enough talking heads spoil a game.” –jaybate 1.0
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@nuleafjhawk Ron Swanson is the BEST!!! 43 best Ron Swanson quotes
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“Out witting Scott Drew at coaching is like outwitting Rebel Wilson at dieting.” –jaybate
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“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
John Wooden
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“God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.”
Manute Bol
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“When you go out there and do the things you’re supposed to do, people view you as selfish.”
Wilt Chamberlain
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“All the time he’s boxing, he’s thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.”
Jack Dempsey
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“I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I’d been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.”
Art Donovan
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“When you get to that level, it’s not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it’s about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.”
Hakeem Olajuwon
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“It is true because it is fact”
Bugs Bunny
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“It’s a direct reflection of Coach,” former KU point guard Elijah Johnson said before last season’s title No. 9 and might as well have spoken for all 10. “The people who were doing it eight years ago are not doing it now. He’s still there. I feel like that has to mean something. He’s doing something right. I just appreciate the fact that he tries to shed the light on us and make it look like it’s us who’s doing it. When all of us know who it really is, the head honcho.”
Well said EJ!
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
Jean Baudrillard
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“In the synthetic reality of watching a game on a computer with the televised game remotely simulated in pixels of one virtual window and the alias dialogue of a live blog simulated in the pixels of a another, simultaneous virtual window, reality itself becomes a meta-simulacrum.”
jaybate simulating the sign Jean Baudrillard after the banal shock of the Neo-New wore off
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A fact is something that can be known while misunderstanding persists.
jaybate
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“In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we went on a nine-game losing streak.”
Paul Pierce
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“If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.”
Charles Barkley
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“Persons that don’t like basketball either haven’t seen it, or should be viewed as having character flaws.”
jaybate
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“Basketball is not a distraction from life. Life is a distraction from basketball.”
jaybate
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“I could be happy practicing most any religion, but preferring football to basketball is unthinkable.”
jaybate
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“I am not a one dimensional person, but if I were, basketball would be that one dimension.”
jaybate
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@jaybate 1.0 You probably meant that as a joke, but I seriously feel that way. Especially KU Basketball. Whenever I meet someone that does not like KU basketball, I automatically don’t trust them.
Same way for fishing. If they like fishing, they must be OK, if they don’t like it, they’ve probably never been.
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@nuleafjhawk “I’ll take all the eggs and bacon you have” - Ron Swanson
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@HawkInMizery - Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait. I’m worried what you just heard was, “Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.” What I said was, “Give me all the bacon and eggs you have”. Do you understand?
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@nuleafjhawk “I call this turf ‘n’ turf. It’s a 16 oz T-bone and a 24 oz porterhouse. Also, whiskey and a cigar. I am going to consume all of this at the same time because I am a free American.”
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@nuleafjhawk On the record…I like fishing.
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@jaybate 1.0 I knew it!!
Actually, (when we were on the “other” site) I recall you telling me of a memorable childhood fishing trip. I really enjoyed that story and knew then that you were a great guy!
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“It’s my third year here. To be able to clinch at home, that would be good for the fans, good for Kansas, good for the players and most importantly, coach,” Naadir Tharpe
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"When you’re doing something interesting, time flies,” Black said. “That’s how this season’s been. It’s been so intriguing and so interesting and just so fun that time has really flown by.” Tarik Black 2014
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At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t
Andy Roddick
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“If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, why practice?”
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Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.
Vince Lombardi
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Pain is only temporary but victory is forever.
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Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.
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When you put on that jersey, the name on the front is more important then the name on the back.
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“Coaching is about preparing kids not to be able to play, when they are as old as you.”
jaybate
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" Opinions are just that, opinions, and as such they are not right or wrong. We all have them and hopefully sharing them makes us see other valid points of view. This is what forums are all about."
JayHawkFanToo
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" Why can’t we be friends? " (repeat x 3)
" I know you’re working for the C.I.A. "
" They wouldn’t have you in the mafia "
" Why can’t we be friends? " (repeat x2)
WAR (and nuleafjhawk)
