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Quote Left I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Quote Right
Quote Left You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. Quote Right
Quote Left I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Quote Right
Quote Left Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Quote Right
Quote Left I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. Quote Right
Quote Left I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. Quote Right
Quote Left It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do. Quote Right
Quote Left Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns. Quote Right
Quote Left Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. Quote Right
Quote Left And when the Salmon seeks a fresher stream to find; (Which hither from the sea comes, yearly, by his kind,) As he towards season grows; and stems the watry tract Where Tivy, falling down, makes an high cataract, Forc'd by the rising rocks that there her course oppose, As tho' within her bounds they meant her to inclose; Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength he does but vainly strive; His tail takes in his mouth, and, bending like a bow That's to full compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw, Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand That bended end to end, and started from man's hand, Far off itself doth cast, so does that Salmon vault; And if, at first, he fail, his second summersault He instantly essays, and, from his nimble ring Still yerking, never leaves until himself he fling Above the opposing stream. Quote Right
Quote Left Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it Quote Right
Quote Left I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. Quote Right
Quote Left I don't want this to feel like a funeral. Quote Right
Quote Left My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. Quote Right
Quote Left The issue of whether taxpayer money needs, and should, be used for a religion-bashing kind of exhibit like that is a legitimate legal issue to be litigated. Maybe, some day, it will come up to the Supreme Court and we'll see what they might say on an issue like that. Quote Right
Quote Left They have a track record of putting out happy numbers. Quote Right
Quote Left I never thought a role model should be negative. Quote Right
Quote Left You have to expect things of yourself before you do them. Quote Right
Quote Left [Although Ball is considered a pop singer, he's not a total stranger to Gilbert and Sullivan, having played Frederick in the West End mounting of Joe Papp's memorable production of The Pirates of Penzance . But Patience is a different kind of work--much of its humor is highly topical, poking fun at the short-lived Aesthetic movement that flourished among British dilettantes 125 years ago. Will that humor translate to a New York audience in the year 2005?] I think there's absolutely no difference to how we regarded things then and how we regard things now, ... There are still those performers and artists who strike on a new art form or mode that attracts their fans, while the majority of us may be saying, 'I'm sorry, but isn't that The Emperor's New Clothes?' There will always be charlatans who do things just to get acclaim and adulation. So I think it'll speak to an audience as clearly today as it did then. Quote Right
Quote Left He's such a quiet kid. That was the most emotion we've seen out of him all year. I think he was waiting for this moment to go in and compete against Shaquille. I had the same thing when I first came into the league (in 1996) and competed against Michael (Jordan). Quote Right
Quote Left Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou mightst him yet recover. Quote Right
Quote Left The best principle is not only to fight the last battle, ... In July we talked a lot about subways. In September we talked a lot about hurricanes. We still need to talk about aviation, about avian flu. Quote Right
Quote Left Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it. Quote Right
Quote Left We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless…We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action…No action. Quote Right
Quote Left And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better. Quote Right
Quote Left Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. Quote Right
Quote Left A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.' Quote Right
Quote Left But when the bowels of the earth were sought, And men her golden entrails did espy,... Quote Right
Quote Left To write about someone like myself would be very limiting. Quote Right
Quote Left Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village. Quote Right
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Member Quotes About Michael

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Quote Left As springs’ budding blossoms emerge the raptors glide mercilessly. I wrote this haiku-like poem on 3-27-2023 after the Nashville Covenant school shooting massacre. — Michael R. Burch Quote Right
Quote Left How long will you live by eating someone else’s leftovers? Find your own way, don’t live on regurgitated words! —Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: life, words, Hindi) Quote Right
Quote Left When you were born, you wept while the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world weeps while you rejoice. —Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: birth, death, world, laughter, rejoice, weep, weeping, cry, crying) Quote Right
Quote Left Keep the slanderer near you, build him a hut near your house. For, when you lack soap and water, he will scour you clean. —Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: home, water, Hindi) Quote Right
Quote Left Without looking into our hearts, how can we find Paradise? —Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: heart, hearts, paradise, sight, seeing, senses, vision) Quote Right
Quote Left Certainly, saints, the world’s insane: If I tell the truth they attack me, if I lie they believe me. —Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: truth, trust, lies, faith, belief, world) Quote Right
Quote Left A poet births words, brings them into the world like a midwife, then wet-nurses them from infancy to adolescence. — Michael R. Burch (keyword/tags: poet, poets, words, birth) Quote Right
Quote Left The most dangerous words ever uttered by human lips are “thus saith the LORD.” — Michael R. Burch (keywords: lord, god, bible, religion) Quote Right
Quote Left Trump broke the law and endangered national security. After all, it’s not like the KGB doesn’t know how to pick locks. — Michael R. Burch aka “The Loyal Opposition” (Keywords: America, USA, leadership, Trump, treason, lock, locks, national security) Quote Right
Quote Left Ko Un was speechless at Auschwitz. Someday, when it’s too late, will we be speechless at Gaza? —Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: Holocaust, Auschwitz, Gaza, death, murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide, infanticide, matricide) Quote Right
Quote Left Joe Montana was Joe Cool, but he was also Joe Clutch. — Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: football, sports, Joe Montana, cool, clutch) Quote Right
Quote Left Water reforms, although we slice it with our swords; Sorrow returns, although we drown it with our wine. ('A Toast to Uncle Yun' by Li Bai, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch) Keywords/Tags: water, wine, sorrow, swords, Li Bai, Uncle Yun Quote Right
Quote Left The spring breeze knows partings are bitter; The willow twig knows it will never be green again. ('Lines from Laolao Ting Pavilion' by Li Bai, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch) Keywords/Tags: spring, green, part, parting, partings, tree, twig Quote Right
Quote Left Cassidy Hutchinson is a modern Erin Brockovich except that in her case the well has been poisoned for the whole country. — Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: America, USA, patriotic, truth, justice, White House, Trump) Quote Right
Quote Left Cassidy Hutchinson is not only credible, but her courage and poise under fire have been incredible. — Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: courage, truth, patriotic, credible, incredible, credibility, Trump) Quote Right
Quote Left I have suffused myself in poetry as a lizard basks, soaking up sun, scales nakedly glinting; its glorious light he understands—when it comes, it comes… (Michael R. Burch, "Sun Poem," keywords/tags: sun, sunshine, summer, poetry) Quote Right
Quote Left I think it's woeful and should be unlawful to eat those awful tofu waffles! ('Woeful Waffles' by Michael R. Burch) Quote Right
Quote Left Truths are more likely discovered by one man than by nations.—Rene Descartes, translation by Michael R. Burch Quote Right
Quote Left Love has the value of gold, if it’s true; if not, of rue. —Michael R. Burch Quote Right
Quote Left Elevate your words, not their volume. Rain grows flowers, not thunder.—Rumi, translation by Michael R. Burch Quote Right
Quote Left Did heaven ever seem so far? Remember–we are as You were, but all our lives, from birth to death— Gethsemane in every breath. ('A Possible Argument for Mercy' by Michael R. Burch) Quote Right
Quote Left We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all women were created sequel... ('Adam's Rib vs. Women's Lib' by Michael R. Burch) Quote Right
Quote Left The reign in a chauvinist’s brain falls mainly as mansplain. ("Apologies to España" by Michael R. Burch, Keywords/Tags: men, women, Spain, Spanish) Quote Right
Quote Left There is nothing at all supreme, nor anything remotely just, about Clarence Thomas.—Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: justice, injustice, supreme court, corruption, America, judgement) Quote Right
Quote Left Justice may be blind, but does she have to be deaf too?—Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: silence, justice, injustice, integrity, truth) Quote Right
Quote Left “Epigram” means cram, then scram! ("Brief Fling" by Michael R. Burch, Keywords/Tags: write, writing, words, word play) Quote Right
Quote Left Brief autumn breeze ... she always wanted to pluck the reddest roses —Issa, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch This is a haiku Issa wrote after the death of his daughter Sato with the note: “Sato, girl, 35th day, at the grave.” Quote Right
Quote Left Wayne Gretzky was pure skill poured into skates.—Michael R. Burch Keywords/Tags: sports, hockey, NHL, skill, talent, genius, miracle Quote Right
Quote Left Mother: the tenderest word on the world's lips. —Khalil Gibran, loose translation/interpretation/paraphrase by Michael R. Burch for Mother's Day 2022 Quote Right
Quote Left God's ultimate masterpiece is a mother's heart. —St. Therese of Lisieux, loose translation/interpretation/paraphrase by Michael R. Burch Quote Right
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