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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
“And it’s bad enough to be caught in your underpants but even worse to be caught in your underpants scratching out a valium prescription on someone else’s pad.”
― David Sedaris, quote from Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
“Everybody has his talent, everybody has his gift from God, and we go about sharing gifts with each other, that's the way of the world, the best way.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Prentice Alvin
“a long time ago I’d given up on religion, thinking it wasn’t for me when so many were bigoted, narrow-minded, and cruel.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.”
― Zadie Smith, quote from The Autograph Man
“The killer walked with a light step that could be achieved only by someone not weighed down with a conscience, and went out into the night's embrace.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from The Good Guy
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