Gregg Troy quotes

Gregg Troy quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.”
-- Gregg Troy

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”
“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”
“We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.”
“You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.”
“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.”
“When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.”
“At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.”
“In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?”

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