C’est l’histoire d’un homme qui tombe d’un immeuble de cinquante étages. Le mec, au fur et à mesure de sa chute se répète sans cesse pour se rassurer : jusqu’ici tout va bien, jusqu’ici tout va bien, jusqu’ici tout va bien. Mais le plus dur c’est pas la chute, c’est l’atterrissage. Heard about the guy who [...]
“Second place in the World Cup is a complete failure. It’s like you’re chatting with a girl and she says you are second in her affections because she prefers someone else.”
In the church, they say to forgive. Forgiveness is between them and God. It’s my job to arrange the meeting. – Creasy, Man on Fire (2004)
“It’s not an excuse for me to say, ‘Oh, I had it rough, I had it this, I had it that.’ I never. The reality of it is I was fucking stupid. There is no two ways about it” – Joey Barton
I remember when someone would show up at an office and tell Pablo they had good news and bad news, and asked which he wanted to hear first, he would tell them, “Any one, it’s all the same. We’re going to have to deal with all situations, so just give me the news.”. Calm. [...]
Hard to disagree with the lad… ‘One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our [...]
Have to say I quite enjoyed these two descriptions, obviously no favouritism from the lad The Teddy Bears No, it’s okay. Not that kind of Rangers supporter. Not the Catholic-hating, right-wing, BNP-supporting, anti-Irish, monarchist, triumphalist, boorish, arrogant, ignorant, sash-wearing, bowler-hatted, Crimplene-trousered, UVF-tattooed, flute-playing, King-Billy-portrait-on-the-mantlepiece, only-started-going-when-Souness- arrived-but-swear-I-was-there-in-the-Eighties, snaw-aff-a-dyke-when-the-team’s-no-winning, couldnae-name-a-non-Old-Firm-player, Union-Jack-waving, Scotland-hating, Nazi-saluting, pipe-bomb-hurling, squeeze-the-toothpaste-at-the-top-end and fart-in-a-crowded-lift [...]
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan