Red Auerbach
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
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He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
May you live all the days of your life.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
The book you don't read cant help.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Work is love made manifest.
They're called boobs, Ed.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Hunker down.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Be the best that you can be.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Love understands all languages.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.