Motta Quotes & Sayings

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough

It is clear that there are situations where we should restrict a child: letting them ingest poison, for example, would be against common sense, but to hinder an adult from taking poison consciously is against common sense also.[...] Seeking to influence others for what we consider "good" is the most idiotic presumption we are capable of. Essentially, we are trying to impose our values on the next person, and to make them our puppets. — Marcelo Motta

And don't try to make yourself an extended family out of ghosts on the Internet. Get yourself a Harley and join the Hell's Angels instead. — Kurt Vonnegut

Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding. — Dick Motta

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant. — John Ray

A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing. — Dick Motta

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth. — Walt Whitman

Today, the word "sin" has lost its power — David Brooks

Christian in any great detail because of the NDA, but even — E.L. James

The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings. — Dick Motta

The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals. — Christiane Northrup

If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world? ... how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death? — Wendell Berry

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. — Dick Motta

To truly be a medicine cat lies in a cat's heart, and all its five senses. You must be braver than warriors, wiser than a clan leader, humbler than the tiniest kit, more willing to learn than an apprentice ... — Erin Hunter

I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta. — Marvin Hagler

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. — Leo Tolstoy