Quote Of The Day

"I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to the millions of unsung men and women who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try and keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others." --Ronald Reagan

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"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." --A. A. Milne

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." --A. A. Milne

"Don't get stuck on stupid."  --Donald Rumsfeld.

"The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living." - unknown but going viral

Our forefathers would have been shooting by now. --Unknown

Render unto my buttocks your lips. --Alfonzo Rachel

Peace based on illusions will crash eventually upon the rocks of ... reality.  --Benjamin Netanyahu

Evil is powerless, if the good are unafraid. --Ronald Reagan

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Strange women lying in ponds and distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare.  There are no winners--only survivors.  --Frank Gifford

Don't Blink. --Jason Garrett

If the truth kills a man, let him die.  --Keith Brooking

This week, this game, right now.  --Wade Phillips

Spectacular results come from unspectacular preparation.--Roger Staubach

We have a Biblical mandate to take care of widows and orphans.  We do not have a Biblical mandate to take care of the lazy. --Bill Bubba Bussey

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.--Edmund Burke

If you don't have time to do it right, then you don't have time to do it over.  --Greg Harris

"I'm sorry, did I begin that sentence with the words 'If it please your highness'".  --Sheldon's Mom

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new Guards for their future security.--The Declaration of Independence

Truth is not what you want it to be;  it is what it is and you must bend to its power or live a lie.--Myamoto Musashi, The Book Of Five Rings

“Our football team won a game (Saturday) in very sloppy fashion.  It’s a victory. It may not be one you want to take a picture of and hold near and dear to you, but 10 years from now it will still be a victory.”--LSU Coach Les Miles

The path to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.  --Miyamoto Musashi

Gentlemen,

this is a football.--Vince Lombardi

It is also the name of the new book I received for Christmas. It is a book of football quotes complied by Eric Zweig. For today's post, I thought I'd share some of my favorites with you.

It was a time mix up. We started playing at nine o'clock, and the kickoff was at eight. --Houston Oilers Head Coach Bum Phillips

Detroit's so bad this year that they might lose their bye week.-- Comedian Dennis Miller

They overwhelmed one, underwhelmed ten, and whelmed one. --Sportswriter Red Smith writing on the Green Bay Packers, who finished 1-10-1 that year.

When in doubt, punt.--John Heisman

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones. --University of Texas Coach Darrell Royal

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the he** you're doing.--Peyton Manning

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas.--Don Meredith

The pads don't keep you from getting hurt. They just keep you from getting killed.--Defensive End Chad Bratzke

People get hurt all the time in football. It's part of what we do.--Linebacker Lawrence Taylor (most famous for breaking Joe Theismann's leg)

We try to hurt everybody. We hit each other as hard as we can. This is a man's game.--Linebacker Sam Huff

Football is not a contact sport. Football is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.--Duffy Daugherty

When he goes on safari, the lions roll up their windows. --Offensive Line Coach Monte Clark on Larry Csonka

We're going to win on Sunday. I'll guarantee you.--Joe Namath

This one wasn't in the book, but I thought I'd add it in here, since it's one of my personal favorites:

We will win the ball game, and you can put it in 3 inch headlines. --Jimmy Johnson

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It's another one of those nights when I just don't feel like composing a post. But I won't leave you empty handed. Here are a few more of my favorite quotes:

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find that he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.--Henry Ford

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.--Pierre Cornielle

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.--Doug Floyd

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.--J.M. Barrie

I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.--Harry S Truman

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.--Thomas A. Edison

A work of art is above all and adventure of the mind.--Eugene Ionesco

True art is characterized by an irresistable urge in the creative artist.--Albert Einstein

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.--Thomas Jefferson

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.--Scott Adams

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on its summit a few moments and then the wind blows your footprints away.--Sir Edmund Hillary
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Supergroup7 posted several quotes on her blog yesterday. I love quotes. I'm a quotes kind of gal. I think this quote is appropriate at this point in my karate training:

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." Harry Truman

Most people on the outside--that is, those who've never trained in a martial art--think that once you get a black belt, you know everything. I've even had people ask me why I was still taking classes since I've gotten my black belt already. After all, what is there left to learn?

They are soooo wrong. Black belt--shodan--is only the beginning. Getting your black belt means you have learned the alphabet and are ready to learn how to read. It doesn't mean you've got your foot in the door, but have learned how to find the doorknob.

With that in mind, I thought I'd start a series sharing some of my favorite quotes. These first ones pertain to the martial arts:

The ultimate aim of the martial arts lies not in victory or defeat. Instead it lies in the perfection of those who participate. —Gichin Funakoshi

To have Confidence, we must be Cocky, but not arrogant. It all starts with the knowledge that practice makes perfect. Yet we all know that nothing is perfect which is the reason we never stop practicing our basics. —A.J. Advincula

But just as Bruce Lee said, "Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick."

Some say "we should get back to basics" but I say, "Never leave the basics" for they are what sets the standard. They are the foundation. —A.J. Advincula

My explanation to women for why you do a kiai: "If you can't kill him outright, at least you can scare him to death" --Sandi Lee

With the right attitude, we practice our basics. The more we practice our basics, the more proficient we become. The more proficient we become, the more confidence we have. The more confidence we have, the more disciplined we are. The more disciplined we are, the more we practice. The more we practice, the better our attitude for basics. With the right attitude, we practice our basics. --A. J. Advincula

More to follow...