Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

--Samuel Johnson

Train hard, train hard. And if you train hard, the fight is easy.

--Manny Pacquiao

Whatever you want to do, stick with it and keep turning it out. If you do that, they can't stop you.

--Ralph Tresvant (courtesy of J. Delos Reyes of The Coyote Chronicle

I can play forever. As long as it's fun.

--Jamal Williams, DT, San Diego Chargers

This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change.

--Barack Obama, Election Night 2008

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

-–Naguib Mahfouz

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

--Frederick Douglass, 1857

Making plays is like winning. It's a habit.

--Shaun Phillips, LB, San Diego Chargers

There's always been someone else being that main person. So I told myself the only way I can make things happen is go hard every play.

--Jyles Tucker, OLB, San Diego Chargers (re-post from preseason)

You don't have to drink like the beer supply is going to run out.

--Mom's advice for Lance turning 21

Finishing second or lower – it's like kissing your sister.

--Brian Giles, RF, San Diego Padres

Sometimes the truth is stupid and ignorant.

--"Coach Mack" on Friday Night Lights

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There are things in this world which are out of our control. Sometimes we like to blame ourselves for them so we can try to make sense out of them.

--"Jack Bauer", 24 Season 2

There's always been someone else being that main person. So I told myself the only way I can make things happen is go hard every play.

--Jyles Tucker, OLB, San Diego Chargers (on what it's like playing behind Shawne Merriman)


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I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you. . . . stranger.


--"The Joker" in The Dark Knight


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Tell the truth. Be earnest. Apologize when you screw up. Focus on others, not yourself.

--Randy Pausch, "Last Lecture" 2007

The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.

--Chinese proverb


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If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1965


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This is no tall order, this is nothing to me / Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week

-- Jay-Z, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" remix

Those who are bound by desire, can see only that which can be held in their hands.

-- "Leroy Green" in The Last Dragon

Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.
-- "Travis Dane" in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self satisfaciton in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. -- Coach John Wooden