At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.
The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.
Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game. . . about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.
I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.
Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim. The reality check comes when Christlike attributes need to become visible in our lives—as husband or wife, as father or mother, as son or daughter, in our friendships, in our employment, in our business, and in our recreation. We can recognize our growth, as can those around us, as we gradually increase our capacity to 'act in all holiness before [Him]' (D&C 43:9).
Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.