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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”
Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”
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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
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“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
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“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
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“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
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“You're the WWE Champion and I would never let you down!”
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“I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.”
Source : Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins
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“One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.”
Source : "Strategy and Conscience" by Anatol Rapoport, Harper & Row, (p. 195), 1964.
