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“People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.”
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“I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.”
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“To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.”
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“I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.”
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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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“Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.”
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“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”
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“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.”
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“Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.”
Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
