Red McCombs quotes

“Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!”
-- Red McCombs

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“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.”

“What does everybody want? HEAD!”

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

“Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.”

Source : Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

“The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!”

“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”

Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

“I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.”

“It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.”