American Quotes

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

Never take counsel of your fears.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I delight in what I fear.

The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand.

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

The night cometh when no man can work.

I must work the works of Him Who sent me while it is yet day.

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.