"Failure builds muscle,determination, and dreams...." - Quote by Michael Jordan

“If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.”

“If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me.”

“All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.”

“We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won”

“I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.”

“Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.”

“Take ones adversityLearn from their misfortuneLearn from their painBelieve in somethingBelieve in yourselfTurn adversity into ambitionNow blossom into wealth”

“They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad”

“She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.”