#realize

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats. ↗

— Allan Houston

#african-american community #ago #basketball #community #especially

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#ballet #could #dancer #enough #even

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. ↗

— Janis Ian

#day #end #end of the day #get #go

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#coach #decent #getting #good #had

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do. ↗

— Gene Mauch

#more #players #realize #than #thing

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. ↗

— Veronica Franco

#act #amongst #be the first #cowardice #death

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong. ↗

— Michael Frayn

#being #catastrophically #create #creating #good

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #both #degree #did #enough

My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#any #chocolate #cooking #discipline #eaten

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. ↗

— Rex Harrison

#before #exhilaration #feeling #get #great