The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
E. M. Forster
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be but like our neighbours we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Samuel Butler
In this age which believes that there is a short cut to everything the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is in the long run the easiest.
Henry Miller
People don't understand that when I grew up I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic and that's been what has gotten me this far.
Tiger Woods
When I was young I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world but you still have to know the fundamentals.
Michael Jordan
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
George Carlin
For cycling and the community it's a big step. This would be a great way to bring kids into the sport and have them around coaches that are constantly observing them. I hope it happens.
Lance Armstrong
Jokes of the proper kind properly told can do more to enlighten questions of politics philosophy and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Isaac Asimov
