Bill Musselman quotes

“Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.”
-- Bill Musselman

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“Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”

“I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.”

“Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.119, Macmillan

“I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.”

“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”

“Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.”

Source : "Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944-45". Book by John Nichol and Tony Rennell, 2006.

“Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.”

“Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.”