“You do have your teammates behind you: your fullback and your halfback, and that’s only because they have to be.”
On quarterback Kyle Boller, Scout.com: More Sharpe criticism for Boller http://ravens.scout.com/2/469290.html?refid=3638
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Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 12
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 78.
Another excerpt from the Tris Speaker speech – featuring a much more familiar version of the "wasting your time" warning – as quoted in "Standing Cheer for Roberto" by Houston Chronicle sportswriter John Wilson, in The Sporting News (February 20, 1971), p. 44.
Other, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
Context: We must all live together and work together no matter what race or nationality. If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
“You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 39
