Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Neil Gaiman
We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
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B.F. Skinner
You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.
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Amit Kalantri
Oh God, teach us thy truth.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Parents must teach their children the fear of God.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By George Vecsey
I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.
Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem... 'O Canada, ' how wonderful is that for hockey... but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all...
When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.
Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.
