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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. ↗

— Larry Bird

#believe #better #getting #giving #go

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#i #play #rest #seldom #tend

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game. ↗

— Larry Bird

#because #black #care #disrespect #far

Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans. ↗

— Artur Davis

#away #chunk #deep #deep south #die

This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know. ↗

— Artur Davis

#democratic party #just #know #party #used

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are. ↗

— Artur Davis

#before #bend #blessed #blows #break

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #celebrity #confuse #executive #experienced

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#flowery #give #hunger #inequality #lectures

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be. ↗

— Rose Bird

#define #going #limits #mainstream #majority

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? ↗

— Artur Davis

#blast #children #genius #glorified #hear