In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
In order to be successful at anything you choose to do, you must make a 100 percent commitment to what it is you are trying to do. If you put 50 percent of your ability into it, that is all that you will get out of it. You must discipline your body and your mind to work towards the goals you have set. Once you have made this decision, then the work begins.
Talk is cheap, let's go play.
I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.
Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I’m not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.
Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth