Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

Michael Michele

This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

Jane Austen

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Ernest Hemingway

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Vernon L. Smith

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.

Derek Jeter

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Jerry Rubin

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

Eliot Spitzer

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Mike Krzyzewski

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

Lee Iacocca

Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Charles Dickens