“Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.”

A person can’t brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex.

My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game – play by play.

Anyone can support a team that is winning – it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

Desire and dedication are everything!

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you’ll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously.

It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial.

Don’t use hustling as an avoidance mechanism to dismiss your emotions.

What science cannot understand, it dismisses.