Court Quotes - Page 13

• I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care of my obligations. That's generally your own destiny-knowing what you have to take care of.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Destiny, Knowing

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• What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Player, Care

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• When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Smart, Believe

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• Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Bulldogs, Body

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• If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

  Allen Iverson

  Motivational, Basketball, Believe

  InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.

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• Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the way he has conducted himself on and off the court. I don't think there will ever be another player to have the same impact on the game of basketball as Michael Jordan.

  Elgin Baylor

  Motivational, Basketball, Player

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• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Adversity, Cat, Men

  "The Square Egg". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Achievement of the Cat", 1924.

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• Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

  Seneca the Elder

  Kings, People, Politics

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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Doe, Ears

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• Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they are courted. Most brands will need to court a range of different communities and travel across pools, webs, and hubs if they want to reach the full range of desired consumers.

  Henry Jenkins

  Couple, Technology, Community

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• Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Liberty, Trouble

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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• Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

  Learned Hand

  Money, Patriotic, Government

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• ...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Responsibility, Doe, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.41, NavPress

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• Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Book, School

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.35, Penguin

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• I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Facts, Cases

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• [Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.

  Richard Dawkins

  Long Ago, Law, Support

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• Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Letters, Operations

  The Federalist no. 22 (1788)

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• Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.

  Katha Pollitt

  Powerful, Struggle, Men

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.308, Modern Library

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• The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.

  Mao Zedong

  Communication, Mean, Army

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• Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

  Earl Warren

  Gun, Rights, People

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• Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

  Aristotle

  Country, Army, Gun

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• I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Astrology, Zenith

  1611 Prospero to Miranda.The Tempest, act1, sc.2, l.182-5.

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