#all

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#arrived #call #life #livable #make

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. ↗

— Gary Neville

#back #bounce #call #could #developed

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything. ↗

— Gary Neville

#against #areas #around #been #began

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all. ↗

— Gary Neville

#anyone #brink #british #cannot #down

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities. ↗

— Gary Neville

#being #clubs #concerns #english #english football

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#best #clearly #conclusion #did #finally

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#answering #could #felt #gotten #had

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#four #grandfather #house #i #little

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#constant #could #enjoyed #fixed #guidance

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way. ↗

— John Newcombe

#fire #form #gradually #had #i