Howard Bach quotes

“One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.”
-- Howard Bach

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“When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.”
-- Howard Bach

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“Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.”
-- Howard Bach

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“Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.”
-- Howard Bach

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“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

“Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.”

“To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.”

“Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.”

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.”

“We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.”

“OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.”