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They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.

Captain James

Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

Charles Shackleford

It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged.

D.a. Chapple

I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.

Harry Sky

There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside

Harry Sky

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi

Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Muhammad Ali

Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong schedules in the coming years. The future looks bright for BYU football. I also want to get a number of projects off the ground before I retire.

LaVell Edwards

Starred forget-me-nots smile sweetly, Ring, bluebells, ring! Winning eye and heart completely, Sing, robin, sing! All among the reeds and rushes, Where the brook its music hushes, Bright the caloposon blushes,__ Laugh, O murmuring Spring!

Sarah Foster Davis

Art is right reason in the doing of work. Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."

Two Precepts of Charity, 1273

The order of the world is always right—such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

Jean Baudrillard

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Laurence Peter

The winds grow high; Impending tempests charge the sky; The lightning flies, the thunder roars; And big waves lash the frightened shores.

Matthew Prior

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.

William Shakespeare

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beecher

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

James A. Froude

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Hans Selye

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves.

William Wells Brown

He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

Jesse Unknown

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

John Milton

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]

Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus)

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi or •Donald Kendall The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

George S. Patton

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasow

Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day, Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest, 'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay; While round his couch's golden rim The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept-- Struggling each other's light to dim, And catch his last smile e'er he slept.

Thomas Moore

Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed. The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest, And hung on the ether's invisible breast; Than the vapours of earth they seemed purer, more bright,-- Oh! could they be clouds? 'Twas the necklace of night.

Bayard Ruskin

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