I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
Believe me, most people resist change, even when it promises to be for the better. But change will come, and if you acknowledge this simple but indisputable fact of life, and understand that you must adjust to all change, then you will have a head start.
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, whe
Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you’re behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
True heroism is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
If you want to be remembered as a great player, if you want to leave your mark, you can't just play the game. You have to leave something behind that will last longer than your name.
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
When I was born, the Lord laid out for me a very clear path. I made some mistakes in my life, but I always tried to stay on that path.
I have tried to manage the best I could. And it is a good feeling to have known that you've put everything into it.
I have always drawn strength from being close to home and knowing the people I grew up with, the people who really know you.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
