I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

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I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a...

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a...

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular...

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means...

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means...

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those...

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those...

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.