#aye

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. ↗

— Red Smith

#day #football #ideal #players #spectators

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#initiative #only #player #right

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent. ↗

— Michael Wilbon

#available #deterrent #enhance #indulge #penalty

Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals. ↗

— Nerlens Noel

#anthony #beat #davis #definitely #goals

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#companies #complete #games #had #i

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#any #anything #ever #gave #god

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#american-born #background #gave #many #me

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#religion #faith

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#prayer #song #faith

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; when there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand, to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying [to ourselves] that we are born to eternal life. ↗

— St. Francis of Assisi

#faith