Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.
I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.
To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.
I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!
Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.
Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow (reductionistic) and instrumental (mechanistic) response to a problem that is fundamentally conceptual: namely, our attitude toward life and our mistreatment of the Earth, plants, and animals-and ourselves in the process.
Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.