#o

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #appeal #countries #desperation #emergencies

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#april #been #before #blue #day

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#background #because #came #core #days

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#becoming #came #concentration #doctor #getting

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#beaten #becomes #champion #filled #general

I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location of a heaven containing physical basketballs? Who makes the basketballs in question? Are there less fortunate souls in heaven who work in a celestial basketball factory so that I can play? Or did an omnipotent God create the basketballs out of the vacuum of space? Is this heaven in some kind of unobservable universe where the laws of physics don't apply, and if so, why in the hell would I be playing basketball when I could be flying or reading or looking at beautiful people or something else I actually enjoy? It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than either the person I was or whatever I am now. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #beauty

I have always applied myself the same for club and country. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#applied #club #country #i #myself

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#down #frustration #get #i #just

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#enjoy #every #his #i #i think

I'm born in Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool supporter. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#i #liverpool #supporter