„Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.“
— Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987
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„It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.“
— Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987
„I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? “
— Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987
„Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.“
— Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987
„I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat“
— Cristiano Ronaldo Portuguese association football player 1985
„I don't want to tell my dreams, I want to show them!“
— Cristiano Ronaldo Portuguese association football player 1985
„We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.“
— Tom Hiddleston English actor, producer and musical performer 1981
„In twenty to thirty thousand years memories become legends and legends become superstitions and even the superstitions become lost. Metals rust and corrode back into earth while the wind, the rain and the jungle erode and cover stone. The contours of the very continents change—and glaciers come and go, and a city of twenty thousand years before is under miles of earth or miles of water.“
— Fredric Brown, book Letter to a Phoenix
Letter to a Phoenix (p. 337)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
„But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money.“
— Avram Davidson, book The Phoenix and the Mirror
Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 9
„This is what the world waits for. The world out there asks, 'What's the Superstar going to wear next?' Not, 'Who's he going to whip next?' but what in the world is the Superstar going to wear. And I've got millions of letters saying, 'Superstar, would you please lay some yellow on me, daddy?“
— Billy Graham (wrestler) American professional wrestler, american football player, bodybuilder 1943
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
„I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.“
— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020
„Mystical experiences, like those that marked my childhood, are apparently far from rare.“
— Albert Hofmann Swiss chemist 1906 - 2008
Foreword
LSD : My Problem Child (1980)
Context: In studying the literature connected with my work, I became aware of the great universal significance of visionary experience. It plays a dominant role, not only in mysticism and the history of religion, but also in the creative process in art, literature, and science. More recent investigations have shown that many persons also have visionary experiences in daily life, though most of us fail to recognize their meaning and value. Mystical experiences, like those that marked my childhood, are apparently far from rare.
„Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.“
— Danielle Steel American author of romance novels 1947
„Where do I live?“
— Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948
The Osbournes television show (visiting fire brigade)
„The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways.“
— Oskar Schindler German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer 1908 - 1974
Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany (1964), quoted in The Oscar Schindler Story (2012) http://www.auschwitz.dk/id2.htm.
Context: The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.
„Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.“
— Benjamin Franklin American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, a… 1706 - 1790
Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007.
Context: But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
„We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.“
— Luciano De Crescenzo Italian writer 1928 - 2019
„Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.“
— Brian Tracy American motivational speaker and writer 1944
