Sandra

“Learn from others and never cease trying to be the best you can possibly be...If you get yourself too engrossed in things over which you have no control, it's going to adversely affect the things over which you have control.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

“Don't hope. Hope is for people who aren't prepared.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

“People ask if what I’ve been through has made me afraid and of course, it has. But not of monsters. Only of those who insist they exist.”
― Emily Maguire, An Isolated Incident

“A Little Fellow Follows Me

A careful man I want to be;
a little fellow follows me.
I do not dare to go astray,
for fear he’ll go the self-same way.
He thinks that I am big and fine ;
Believes in every word of mine.
The base in me he must not see;
This little chap who follows me.
I must be careful as I go;
Through summer sun and winter snow.
Because I am building, for the years to be;
This little chap who follows me.

I will always be proud to say that I was one of those little fellows. All seven feet two inches of me.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court