Godfrey Gao quotes

Godfrey Gao quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.”
-- Godfrey Gao

#Basketball Quotes #Dream Quotes #Play Quotes

“Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.”
“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”
“Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.”
“Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.”
“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.”
“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.”
“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics
“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”
“Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,”
“The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.”

Source : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.

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