Larry Smith
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
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A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Mr. Christian !
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
There are no gains without pains.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
The best things in life are free.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Never Quit.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
To ask the hard question is simple.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
I'm going to take a bath.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you build it, he will come.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.