In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.
I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.
I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.
I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.
Hey,” the other said, coming to life. “You’re supposed to be in jail. ” Al grinned at him, his white-gloved grip tightening on the wooden handle, which was intricately carved in the shape of a naked, writhing woman. Nice. “And your momma wanted you to have a brain,” he said, yanking the door open and slamming it into the guy’s face.
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.