#tea

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. ↗

— Aristophanes

#crab #straight #teach #walk #you

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#i #joined #kid #pool #put

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate. ↗

— Dusty Baker

#dad #father #feel #i #i feel

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#ball #breath #care #certain #choke

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#building #go #high #high level #i

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#out #stain #tears #wash

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#beginning #chest #chin #could #head

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. ↗

— Edward Bach

#between #christ #civilization #example #glorious

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. ↗

— Richard Bach

#instead #know #listen #you

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#bill #bought #bulbs #bureaucracy #buy