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“If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“You never know when true greatness is lurking around the corner. Just make sure you don’t forget the ones who already lurked.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“The secret of basketball is that it’s not about basketball.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“When the Lakers held Jerry West Night in March 1971, Bill Russell paid his own way to be there and said during the ceremony, “Jerry, I once wrote that success is a journey, and that the greatest honor a man can have is the respect and friendship of his peers.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“When the Lakers held Jerry West Night in March 1971, Bill Russell paid his own way to be there and said during the ceremony, “Jerry, I once wrote that success is a journey, and that the greatest honor a man can have is the respect and friendship of his peers. You have that more than any man I know. Jerry, you are, in every sense of the word, truly a champion. If I could have one wish granted, it would be that you would always be happy.”
― quote from The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
“That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.”
― Christopher Hitchens, quote from god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“Walter Issacson biographer of Steve Jobs:
I remember sitting in his backyard in his garden, one day, and he started talking about God. He [Jobs] said, “ Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50/50, maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more, and I find myself believing a bit more, maybe it’s because I want to believe in an afterlife, that when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated, somehow it lives on.”
Then he paused for a second and said, “Yea, but sometimes, I think it’s just like an On-Off switch. Click. And you’re gone.” And then he paused again and said, “ And that’s why I don’t like putting On-Off switches on Apple devices.”
Joy to the WORLD! There IS an after-life!”
― Walter Isaacson, quote from Steve Jobs
“An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Night Watch
“She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Messenger
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