#rain

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#better #blocks #concentrate #concentration #develop

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces. ↗

— Kate Moss

#bits and pieces #carried #changing #few #getting

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#beauty #dark #every #mist #out

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#being #bob #carter #first #first time

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite. ↗

— Jamie Moyer

#i #invite #kind #looked #spring

I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove. ↗

— Jamie Moyer

#approached #i #prove #something #spring

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening. ↗