Pete Maravich quotes

Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!
-- Pete Maravich

#Patience #Dream #Character

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.
-- Pete Maravich

#Basketball #Dedication #Light

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.
-- Pete Maravich

#Basketball #Hands #Two

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.
-- Pete Maravich

#Basketball #Heart #Years

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.
-- Pete Maravich

#Basketball #Years #Focus

If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.
-- Pete Maravich

#Basketball #Choices #Way

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.
-- Pete Maravich

#Basketball #Father #Sometimes

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
-- Pete Maravich

#Basketball #Careers #Satisfaction

I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would take my basketball to bed with me, I'd lay there after my mother kissed and tucked me in, and I'd shoot the ball up in the air and say, 'Finger tip control, backspin, follow through.
-- Pete Maravich

#Basketball #Summer #Sports

Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Tell me what's the difference

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.