"The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!"
- Denis Waitley
"What your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill
Thought of the Day for August 24, 2011
Thought of the Day for August 23, 2011
"He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.
Now he’s miserable and depressed."
- David Frost
"When you make a change, make a change for the better AND
have a positive attitude about it."
- George Freshting
Thought of the Day for August 22, 2011
"I am a part of all I have seen."
- Lord Tennyson
"To increase your knowledge, gain more experience and fully
engage in life, get out of your comfort zone, explore new territories,
learn new things."
- Friar Telly, II
Thought of the Day for August 21, 2011
All life is based upon the fact that anything worth getting is hard to get.
Scholarship can only be bought at the price of study.
Skill in any craft or technique can only be bought at the price of practice.
Eminence in any sport can only be bought at the price of training and discipline.
The world is full of people who have missed their destiny because they would
not pay the price.
No one can take the easy way and enter into any kind of glory or greatness.
-William Barclay
"Life is what you make it, always has been, always will be."
- Freshting
Thought of the Day for August 20, 2011
"Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make, the better.
What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice?
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
- Emerson
Thought of the Day for August 18, 2011
"When you confront a problem you begin to solve it."
- Rudy Giuliani
"When faced with a challenge, look for a way to solve it,
not a way out of it."
- David Weatherford
Thought of the Day for August 17, 2011
You plant a garden. Your flowers don’t grow.
You don’t criticize and yell at your flowers.
You water, fertilize, and nurture your flowers and your garden grows.
Think about your family, friends and co-workers.
When you find them not doing what they’re supposed to do, or not doing it
in a way you want it done, what do you do?
Do you criticize them or do you teach, nurture, and support them?
Don’t criticize others. Try to understand what they need to
be successful and then provide it.
– Friar Telly, II
Thought of the Day for August 16, 2011
"Sherman White’s association with the point-shaving scandal was the
bane of his existence. It gnawed at him for all of his life, and that’s why
he tried so hard to work with so many young men."
- Ellen White
"All you have in life is your reputation and your integrity.
Don’t jeopardize your future by cheating today."
- Friar Telly, II
Sherman White (1929 -2011)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Sherman White, a 1950s college basketball star at Long
Island University who served jail time for point shaving, has died. He was 82.
White died of congestive heart failure on Aug. 4 at his home in Piscataway,
N.J., his widow, Ellen, said Friday.
The 6-foot-8 White was one of the nation’s best college players for LIU in
the late 1940s, and led the nation in scoring in 1951.
He appeared destined for a successful NBA career, but was arrested in 1951
for taking money to fix the outcomes of games.
Investigators found that between 1947 and 1950, 86 college games had been
fixed and 32 players, including White and two teammates, were implicated.
The scandal was centered in New York, where Madison Square Garden had
college doubleheaders twice a week.
White served about eight months in jail and was barred from the NBA.
He played in basketball’s minor leagues for a while, and went on to work
for a liquor distributor in northern New Jersey and mentored youngsters in
Newark and in his hometown of Englewood.
His association with the point-shaving scandal "was the bane of his
existence," Ellen White said Friday. "It gnawed at him for all of his life,
and that’s why he tried so hard to work with so many young men."
White felt the ballplayers shouldered too much of the blame for the
scandals.
"They’re still blaming the ballplayers entirely," he told The New York
Times in 1998. "Not that the ballplayers aren’t responsible for their
actions, because they are. I’m not saying I didn’t do something wrong
because I know I did something wrong.
"But there are a lot things that cause these scandals, not just the
ballplayers. And if they don’t look out, they’re going to have another
scandal."
Copyright (c) 2011 The Associated Press
Thought of the Day for August 15, 2011
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without
hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
– Seneca
Thought of the Day for August 15, 2011
Monday’s recycled Thought of the Day favorites…
"I’ve had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge.
You know why? While you’re carrying a grudge, they’re out dancing."
- Buddy Hackett
Get over it – for every minute you are angry, you lose sixty
seconds of happiness.