Ned Crotty quotes

“Don't dwell on mistakes, because it will only cause more.”
-- Ned Crotty

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“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.”

“It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.”

“I really lack the words to compliment myself today.”

“Politics is a blood sport.”

Source : Quoted in Jennie Lee My Life with Nye (1980).

“Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”

Source : "Schwarzenegger elected governor, Oct. 7, 2003" by Andrew Glass, www.politico.com. October 7, 2009.

“I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.”

“God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!”

“Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.”

“One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.”

“Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.”