Mel Daniels quotes

“Nothing can take away our memories or what we know.”
-- Mel Daniels

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“I'm ecstatic that I had the opportunity to play in the American Basketball Association. It was an opportunity to be part of something new and exciting and I think everyone who played would tell you the same thing.”
-- Mel Daniels

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“The ABA really loosened up the NBA and introduced innovations like the three-point shot and the Slam Dunk and other competitions at the All Star Game. And we had all the hot young players.”
-- Mel Daniels

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“Michael Jordan was blessed by God to play basketball and Roger Brown was the closet person to him I ever saw. I don't say that lightly. Roger was phenomenal. There was nothing he couldn't do. He was so quick he would trick people blind - I even saw him miss layups because he was laughing so hard at what he had just done to someone.”
-- Mel Daniels

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“I was definitely out of control, but I loved the game of basketball and I played to win and I didn't understand anything less than that. That's why I have a hard time with the young men who can't play because they went to the dentist this afternoon.”
-- Mel Daniels

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“Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.”

“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”

“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.”

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

“Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.”

“Nothing stands still, except in our memory.”

Source : Philippa Pearce (2015). “Tom's Midnight Garden”, p.159, Oxford University Press - Children

“Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.”

“I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence.”

“I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.”

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“Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.”