Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.
Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.
It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.
Go out there and row faster.
My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.
Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the wanderers home to the nest, Let me sit down with the ones I love best, Hear the old voices still ringin' with song, See the old faces unblemished by wrong, See the old table with all of its chairs An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.