My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.
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RUSSELL HOBAN Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ... PETER RUSSELL Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li... BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet... BERTRAND RUSSELL The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston... BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but e... BERTRAND RUSSELL We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a... BERTRAND RUSSELL It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends wi... RUSSELL LYNES Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se... BERTRAND RUSSELL It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea... BERTRAND RUSSELL The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the... BERTRAND RUSSELL Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;... BERTRAND RUSSELL Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss... BERTRAND RUSSELL The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a... BERTRAND RUSSELL Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. BERTRAND RUSSELL The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en... BERTRAND RUSSELL This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one ... BERTRAND RUSSELL If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have... RUSSELL HOBAN The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. BERTRAND RUSSELL The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you ca... RUSSELL LYNES If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it ... RUSSELL LYNES A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translate... BERTRAND RUSSELL The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: ins... BERTRAND RUSSELL After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they sp... RUSSELL HOBAN Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort ... RUSSELL HOBAN No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. BERTRAND RUSSELL Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's... RUSSELL HOBAN Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. BERTRAND RUSSELL Drunkenness is temporary suicide. BERTRAND RUSSELL A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own. RUSSELL GREEN Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and shoul... RUSSELL BAKER Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back... RUSSELL BAKER