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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Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
I want the fairy tale.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Real love stories never have endings.
I know that I will die laughing.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
He who hesitates is lost !
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Live your life and forget your age.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Ability is sexless.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
You talkin to me ?
Great oaks from little acorns grow
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
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.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.