#th

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#becoming #came #concentration #doctor #getting

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#beaten #becomes #champion #filled #general

I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location of a heaven containing physical basketballs? Who makes the basketballs in question? Are there less fortunate souls in heaven who work in a celestial basketball factory so that I can play? Or did an omnipotent God create the basketballs out of the vacuum of space? Is this heaven in some kind of unobservable universe where the laws of physics don't apply, and if so, why in the hell would I be playing basketball when I could be flying or reading or looking at beautiful people or something else I actually enjoy? It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than either the person I was or whatever I am now. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #beauty

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#down #frustration #get #i #just

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#enjoy #every #his #i #i think

I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#fan #frustrated #get #i #just

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#control #future #i #other #people

I like being on this stage because it keeps me thinking. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#being #i #keeps #like #me

I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder. ↗

— George Strait

#big #blue #catch #chaos #cockpit

Through the darkest hours of the night and through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry sky and beyond galaxies I am free. Through the grimmest memories and past a seasons air I cannot breathe, Far beyond this mortal world in an afterlife we shall meet. ↗

— Lee Argus

#death-note #faith #friendship #love #poem