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Good coaches teach respect for the opposition, love of competition, the value of trying your best, and how to win and lose graciously.


Brooks Clark

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GARTH BROOKS Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
GARTH BROOKS You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
GARTH BROOKS Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
GARTH BROOKS Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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GARTH BROOKS I just love to see people having a good time.
GARTH BROOKS Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
THOMAS BROOKS He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
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MEL BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
THOMAS BROOKS I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
BROOKS ATKINSON If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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BROOKS ATKINSON I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
BROOKS ATKINSON A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broad...
PHILLIPS BROOKS As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let
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PHILLIPS BROOKS I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.
GARTH BROOKS Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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BROOKS ATKINSON You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel that m...
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BROOKS ATKINSON Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
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MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
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LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
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PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ...
PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&...
ALBERT BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst...
RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce...
MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue....
ALBERT BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
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PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS First fight. Then fiddle.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poem...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing t...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS We are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's ins...
SCOTT BROOKS I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for ...
SCOTT BROOKS Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a...
ALBERT BROOKS It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
GARTH BROOKS We rode pretty hard for about 30 or 40 kilometers, but eventually it got a bit disorganized. There w...
BEN BROOKS It will be a lot funnier. It will have a lot more raw material, as I call it.
BEN BROOKS We started to execute more and our team did not have as many turnovers. We just played better as a t...
BEN BROOKS The sponsors were even more keen because they wanted to have more of a brand awareness down here.
BEN BROOKS The Herald Sun Tour is one of the premier cycling events in Australia, so the boys and I are keen to...
BEN BROOKS I was his host for nine Phoenix Opens and would fly him over in a private jet. I always tried to tel...
BEN BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the ...
ALBERT BROOKS A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up hi...
MEL BROOKS I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
MEL BROOKS One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy so...
DAVID BROOKS We're doing everything we can. Mainly the program draws from Harwich and Brewster, even though we go...
BILL BROOKS We have a calendar raffle starting up, and we've sold cookie dough and had can drives. We're looking...
BILL BROOKS The main thing is we want to increase the amount of kids in the program. The numbers are off; that's...
BILL BROOKS We've always tried to enforce the law that no one from a foreign country can cross except at an offi...
BILL BROOKS Are Mr. and Mrs. Gaines going to be on the second floor gawking?
BILL BROOKS Generally, in hospitals, there is some morbidity and some mortality that results from giving the wro...
BILL BROOKS He's a big fella. It just doesn't lend itself to the symmetry of the park,
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