February
Wisdom has beeen chasing you but you've always been faster.
-- via Robert Dial
January (2024)
Imagination is more mportant than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
April
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution,
-- Aristotle
March
What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
-- Ava Gardner
February
When the games come, everybody likes the competitiveness, but watching kids grow is really the joy.
-- Gregg Popovich
January (2023)
You don't have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.
-- Ric Flair
December
Ya never too hot, never too cold; never too young, never too old; never too skinny, never too fat; never too dis, never too dat; ya just where ya are & dat's where it's at.
-- Dr. John
Novenber
If someone calls you, the third thing he says is usually the reason he called.
-- Al McGuire
October
The key is not the "will to win"-- everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
-- Bob Knight
September
If ignorance is bliss, why more people ain't happy?
-- Dr. John
August
Really smart people continue to explore and learn every day.
-- Bill Russell
July
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
-- Red Auerbach
June
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
May
Failure is an event, never a person.
-- William D. Brown
April
One of the greatest things you can learn about yourself is your own limitations.
-- Steve (father of Bill) Belichick
March
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
-- Voltaire
February
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers
January 2022
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe
December
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
-- Frank Zappa
November
The older you get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
-- Will Rogers
October
Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you're honest with them, then you're an asshole.
-- George Carlin
September
The world was a better place with George Carlin in it.
-- Matthew Berry
August
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
-- Pastor J. P. Davis
July
You should not speak unless you can improve the silence.
-- J. Simmons
June
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
-- Duke Ellington
May
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
April
There's a reason the rearview mirror is smaller than the windshield.
-- Madea
March
We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.
-- Iyanla Van Zant
February
What we need more of these days -- I don't care how you look at it -- is caring for others whoever that is.
-- Coach John Chaney
January 2021
It's better to be excluded for who you include than included for who you exclude.
-- H. Mayfield
December
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
-- Roy L. Smith
November
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
-- Plato
October
It always seems impossible until it's done.
-- Nelson Mandela
September
An acre of performance is woth a whole world of promise.
-- Red Auerbach
August
Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
-- John Lewis
July
The most interesting things in life happen just outside your comfort zone.
-- Michael Hyatt
June
One can never have enough Whimsy.
-- an Abacus Original
June
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-- Malcolm X
May
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
-- Coach Ron Nacierio
April
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- Mark Twain
March
It's a pantomime not a play.
-- Dave Brubeck
February
January 2020
You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
-- MLK
December
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
-- Will Rogers
November
Every day isn't gonna be a steak day. There's gonna be baloney days.
-- Coach Wesley "The Undertaker" Boyd
October
You don't stop laughin' cuz you get old ... you get old cuz you stop laughin'.
September
August
Funny thing about decisions -- you don't have to talk yourself into the right ones.
-- "Frank Reagan"
July
Craft an illusion and make it real.
-- the artistic ethos of Leon Redbone
June
To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
-- Leon Redbone (RIP)
May
Your edu-ma-cation ain't no hipper than what you understand.
-- Dr. John
April
Don't be a thermometer, be a thermostat -- set your own temperature.
March
Jazz is the Teacher -- Funk is the Preacher.
-- James "Blood" Ulmer
February
Join the War against Stereotypes -- defeat bigotry, one word at a time.
January (2019)
Resolution first and foremost requires a clear focus.
December
You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems,
-- Phylicia Rashad
November
When attacked by a mob of clowns, go for the juggler!
-- unknown
October
Positivity is always on the other side of the comma I just happened to make a period.
-- Krystal Ashade
September
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
-- Bob Dylan
August
I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs ... but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
-- unknown
July
My big advantage over other people is that I've always been less mature than my age.
-- Doug Moe
June
Discipline isn't something you do TO somebody, but something you do FOR somebody.
-- Eric Mangini
May
A man with a hammer sees every problem as a nail.
-- Will Cain
April
I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by dreamers. They never know what can't be done.
-- Bill Veeck
March
Art interprets the mythology of the group of people that it comes out of.
-- Wynton Marsalis
February
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber
January (2018)
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children.
-- Neil Gaiman
December
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
-- Oscar Wilde
November
Life is too short to be normal. Stay weird!
-- unknown
October
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
-- Bob Knight
September
You reach out twice in life -- you reach out for help, you reach back to help.
-- Ken Hudson, Father of the Boston Shootout
August
Ice cream is cheaper than Therapy.
-- Woody Paige
July
I have tried always not to break any rules, but to test highly their elasticity.
-- Bill Veeck (under oath)
June
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy
May
Vision without Resources is Hallucination.
April
The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.
March
One thing about the truth is you don't have to prop it up, it can stand on its own.
-- C. R. Hall-Esq.
February
Hustle until your haters ask if you are hiring.
-- E. Putman, Esq.
January (2017)
School sucks -- the dregs of ignorance from the very core of your being and replaces it with knowledge and sometimes even wisdom.
-- an Abacus original
December
November
A great coach can help a team win six or seven games. A good coach doesn't cost his team any games; a bad coach does.
-- Wilt Chamberlain
October
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
-- Muhammad Ali
September
August
Never second guess yourself...If you work toward being normal, you will never know how amazing you can be,
-- George Raveling
July
If the purest form of leadership is service, there is nobody who embodies leadership better than Pat Summitt.
-- Doris Burke, ESPN
June
The vibrant and varied personalities I encounter keep me laughing and reflecting and realizing how much I can learn from the amazing kids I teach.
-- Rebecca "Tutor Me" Guillory
May
We can be disappointed if we fail, but we are doomed if we don't try.
-- Spike Lee
April
Learning to speak [without stuttering at age 28] was my biggest accomplishment and your biggest nightmare.
-- Bill Walton
March
Steph Curry doesn't get into a Zone -- he wakes up.
-- Michael Smith, ESPN
February
The "Un-Zone": playing as if he'd rented his body on game day and got stuck with a size too big.
-- Darcy Frey, "The Last Shot"
January (2016)
A Grandpa doesn't judge, he loves.
December
Big-time college sports is exploitation disguised as education.
-- Dan LeBatard
November
Few minds wear out; most minds rust out.
October
Fundamentals are a crutch for the talentless.
-- Kenny Powers
September
An acre of performance is woth a whole world of promise.
-- Red Auerbach
August
Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
-- John Lewis
July
The most interesting things in life happen just outside your comfort zone.
-- Michael Hyatt
June
One can never have enough Whimsy.
-- an Abacus Original
June
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-- Malcolm X
May
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
-- Coach Ron Nacierio
April
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- Mark Twain
March
It's a pantomime not a play.
-- Dave Brubeck
February
It’s way more important to teach
players how to fish instead of telling them where the fish are.
-- Kobe Bryant
You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
-- MLK
December
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
-- Will Rogers
November
Every day isn't gonna be a steak day. There's gonna be baloney days.
-- Coach Wesley "The Undertaker" Boyd
October
You don't stop laughin' cuz you get old ... you get old cuz you stop laughin'.
September
I am basically a cross between a
curmudgeon and a cynic.
-- Leon RedboneAugust
Funny thing about decisions -- you don't have to talk yourself into the right ones.
-- "Frank Reagan"
July
Craft an illusion and make it real.
-- the artistic ethos of Leon Redbone
June
To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
-- Leon Redbone (RIP)
May
Your edu-ma-cation ain't no hipper than what you understand.
-- Dr. John
April
Don't be a thermometer, be a thermostat -- set your own temperature.
March
Jazz is the Teacher -- Funk is the Preacher.
-- James "Blood" Ulmer
February
Join the War against Stereotypes -- defeat bigotry, one word at a time.
January (2019)
Resolution first and foremost requires a clear focus.
December
You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems,
-- Phylicia Rashad
November
When attacked by a mob of clowns, go for the juggler!
-- unknown
October
Positivity is always on the other side of the comma I just happened to make a period.
-- Krystal Ashade
September
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
-- Bob Dylan
August
I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs ... but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
-- unknown
July
My big advantage over other people is that I've always been less mature than my age.
-- Doug Moe
June
Discipline isn't something you do TO somebody, but something you do FOR somebody.
-- Eric Mangini
May
A man with a hammer sees every problem as a nail.
-- Will Cain
April
I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by dreamers. They never know what can't be done.
-- Bill Veeck
March
Art interprets the mythology of the group of people that it comes out of.
-- Wynton Marsalis
February
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber
January (2018)
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children.
-- Neil Gaiman
December
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
-- Oscar Wilde
November
Life is too short to be normal. Stay weird!
-- unknown
October
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
-- Bob Knight
September
You reach out twice in life -- you reach out for help, you reach back to help.
-- Ken Hudson, Father of the Boston Shootout
August
Ice cream is cheaper than Therapy.
-- Woody Paige
July
I have tried always not to break any rules, but to test highly their elasticity.
-- Bill Veeck (under oath)
June
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy
May
Vision without Resources is Hallucination.
April
The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.
March
One thing about the truth is you don't have to prop it up, it can stand on its own.
-- C. R. Hall-Esq.
February
Hustle until your haters ask if you are hiring.
-- E. Putman, Esq.
January (2017)
School sucks -- the dregs of ignorance from the very core of your being and replaces it with knowledge and sometimes even wisdom.
-- an Abacus original
December
Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify
the hunter.
– African proverb
November
A great coach can help a team win six or seven games. A good coach doesn't cost his team any games; a bad coach does.
-- Wilt Chamberlain
October
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
-- Muhammad Ali
September
The Celtic ‘system’ was designed to
permit intelligent, winning players to endlessly use their own curiosity and
creativity to accomplish results.
– Bill Russell
August
Never second guess yourself...If you work toward being normal, you will never know how amazing you can be,
-- George Raveling
July
If the purest form of leadership is service, there is nobody who embodies leadership better than Pat Summitt.
-- Doris Burke, ESPN
June
The vibrant and varied personalities I encounter keep me laughing and reflecting and realizing how much I can learn from the amazing kids I teach.
-- Rebecca "Tutor Me" Guillory
May
We can be disappointed if we fail, but we are doomed if we don't try.
-- Spike Lee
April
Learning to speak [without stuttering at age 28] was my biggest accomplishment and your biggest nightmare.
-- Bill Walton
March
Steph Curry doesn't get into a Zone -- he wakes up.
-- Michael Smith, ESPN
February
The "Un-Zone": playing as if he'd rented his body on game day and got stuck with a size too big.
-- Darcy Frey, "The Last Shot"
January (2016)
A Grandpa doesn't judge, he loves.
December
Big-time college sports is exploitation disguised as education.
-- Dan LeBatard
November
Few minds wear out; most minds rust out.
October
Fundamentals are a crutch for the talentless.
-- Kenny Powers
September
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in
awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
-- George CarlinAugust
Just what makes that little ol' ant,
Think he'll move that rubber-tree plant?
-- Sammy Cahn's "High Hopes"
July
It's a long road and a little wheel, and it takes a lot of turns to get there.
-- Charlie Daniels
June
The argument that we could have perfection is often the defeating of good.
-- Fay Vincent
May
People born round don't die square.
-- Teddy Atlas
April
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.
March
What nature gives, nurture must refine, hone and tune.
-- George F. Will
February
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up.
-- Bill "Spaceman" Lee
January (2015)
And after all the violence and double-talk, there's just a song in all the trouble and the strife; you do the walk, you do the Walk of Life.
-- Mark Knopfler.
December
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
November
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
-- Teddy Roosevelt
October
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
September
A word to the wise is unnecessary; the stupid need advice.
-- Bill Cosby
August
The only justification for looking down on anyone
is if you're gonna stop and pick them up.
-- Rev. Jesse Jackson
July
The world's comprised of two great schools:
Enlightened rogues and religious fools.
-- Duane Allman (among others)
June
I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day-to-day.
But tell me,
Where do the children play?
-- Cat Stevens, 2014 inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
May
There are two Rules for Success:
No. 1 Never tell everything you know.
-- Roger H. Lincoln
April
Luck?
That's when opportunity meets preparation.
Are you preparing to get lucky?
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