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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What do you feel like doing tonight ?
A healthy outside starts from the inside
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Who's on first.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
This is the beginning of a new day.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
To infinity and beyond !
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Sanctuary !
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
The first duty of love is to listen.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
There is time for everything.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
I want the fairy tale.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Real love stories never have endings.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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.
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