Larry Bird

"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." – Larry Bird

"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." – Larry Bird 

"Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it." – Cleveland Cavaliers announcer Howie Chizek after Bird set a club record with 60 points in one game and scored 48 in another (1984-85)

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Know...

“It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.”

-Sun Tzu 

Water

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy ... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."

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Despair

“Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.” ― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut