Child Did Not Make The Team Quotes & Sayings

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose. — Steven Curtis Chapman

Other people's successes are good news - for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go. — Steve Wynn

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero. — Josh Billings

Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them — Henry Rollins

By identifying that which is disrupting our current moment of bliss, so too can we then take the logical and practical steps to amend the problem. — Timothy Moran

Nothing on Krynn is more dangerous than a bored kender. — Margaret Weis

We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital. — Russ Carnahan

If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable. — Michael Sandel

When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week. — Billie Jean King

When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger — Lee Ryan

If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail. — Ted Nugent

People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a need to execute. And, the only way they are going to achieve that is to make their body run faster, jump higher, and move quicker.
If more fat kids were chosen first for activities and sports and group/team dynamics, they would automatically start to change their lives to fit into the expectations that surround those moments. Any time a child is picked last, they know it's because people expect the least of them, and so they never actually have a need to rise above that. — Dan Pearce