#aye

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

#greatest #hall #i #know #matter

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#final #guy #i #just #more

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#i #messed #more #music #myself

These players are prima donnas. They need to educate themselves so they don't make such stupid remarks. ↗

— Richard Williams

#educate #make #need #players #prima

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#daily #daily bread #empty #empty stomach #first

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!' ↗

— Angus Young

#amp #amplifier #church #down #dragged

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen. ↗

— Robin Yount

#also #always #bud #call #cared

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for. ↗

— Venus Williams

#ever #goal #happen #i #keep

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours. ↗

— Robin Yount

#balls #baseball #bats #boy #broken

Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs. With my immense treasure of experience and wisdom, it seems a pity not to let everybody partake of it. But thou knowest, Lord, that in the end I will need a few friends. Keep me from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point. Grant me the patience to listen to the complaints of others; help me to endure them with charity. But seal my lips on my own aches and pains -- they increase with the increasing years and my inclination to recount them is also increasing. I will not ask thee for improved memory, only for a little more humility and less self-assurance when my own memory doesn't agree with that of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be wrong. Keep me reasonably gentle. I do not have the ambition to become a saint -- it is so hard to live with some of them -- but a harsh old person is one of the devil's masterpieces. Make me sympathetic without being sentimental, helpful but not bossy. Let me discover merits where I had not expected them, and talents in people whom I had not thought to possess any. And, Lord, give me the grace to tell them so. Amen ↗

— Margot Benary-Isbert

#humility #old-age #patience #prayer #age