#aye

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#big #big band #house #into #mother

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#floor #get #got #just #lot

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#fragments #history #holds #makes #possible

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on. ↗

— Michael Ende

#day #ever #fact #fear #had

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#am #basically #could #expertise #first

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#few #first #football #football players #foreign

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#football #football players #learn #little #making

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking. ↗

— Todd English

#baseman #began #coach #colleges #cooking

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one. ↗

— Brian Eno

#am #any #being #i #i am

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters. ↗

— John Bonham

#covered #days #doing #drum #early