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Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#attain #cop-out #easiest #goal #never

Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#back #been #bring #certain #day

I'm chasing perfection. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#i #perfection

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#ankle #because #before #broken #during

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#fish #flailing #getting #guys #hit

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. ↗

— Yul Brynner

#being #being smart #dumb #get #men

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything. ↗

— Yul Brynner

#everything #i #lot #never #offered

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything. ↗

— Oliver Hudson

#anything #father #just #me #mean

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container. ↗