“Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
“Before very long I acquired a discipline for which the only name is Puritan. I never cheated, I never appealed for a decision unless I thought the batsman was out.”
— C. L. R. James, book Beyond a Boundary
Source: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 26
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