#aye

Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#again #back #best #certainly #come

He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#cup #here #how #i #know

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#against #career #few #first #games

But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#czech #differently #difficult #fast #few

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#did #differently #era #fair #game

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#could #done #favorites #get #just

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#most #perfect #prayer #simple #thought

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue. ↗

— Jay Leno

#asked #baseball #because #during #fact

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. ↗

— Jay Leno

#basketball #basketball player #days #election #former

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#equipped #everything #going #how #just