"Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around."

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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."

Paul McCartney, English Musician

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"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."

Robert B. Parker, American Writer

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"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."

Robert B. Parker, American Writer

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"Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule."

Rush Limbaugh, American Entertainer

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?"

Muddy Waters, American Musician

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

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"I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American."

World

"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players."

Leadership

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

God

"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."

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"The best players will play. That's the way it will always be."

Sports

"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."

Care

"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me."

Wonder

"But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever."

Man

"If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first."

Family

"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it."

Money