The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger.
Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.
Everybody has a talent, but its what you do with that talent to make it great.
Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.
I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better.
Dream big, because dreams do happen.
In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world.
The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe. A thought in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.