Spec B Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 "Knowledge is power...France is Bacon" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 My friend thought that Stevie Wonder's "Part Time Lover" was actually "Apartheid Lover". I had just learned about apartheid and was then pretty sure he wasn't right. the_mad_scientist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KartRacerBoy Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 "And remember, warm beer is infinitely colder than no beer." Warren Miller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strizzy Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 "Speed has never killed anyone... Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." -Jeremy Clarkson My bad luck build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons." - Gene Wilder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDII Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 Thank you very much. Thank you.That's -- That's the lowest I've ever seen Dick Vitale since the owner of the Detroit Pistons called him in and told him he should go into broadcasting.I can't tell you what an honor it is to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever. But, as it was said on the tape, and I also don't have one of those things going with the cue cards, so I'm going to speak longer than anybody else has spoken tonight. That's the way it goes. Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I'll have something that will be important to other people too.But, I can't help it. Now, I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me. As Dick said, I'm a very emotional, passionate man. I can't help it. That's being the son of Rocco and Angelina Valvano. It comes with the territory. We hug, we kiss, we love. And when people say to me how do you get through life or each day, it's the same thing. To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.And so, I can't help -- I rode on the plane up today with Mike Krzyzewski, my good friend and a wonderful coach. People don't realize he's ten times a better person than he is a coach, and we know he's a great coach. He's meant a lot to me in these last five or six months with my battle. But when I look at Mike, I think, we competed against each other as players. I coached against him for fifteen years, and I always have to think about what's important in life to me are these three things. Where you started; where you are; and where you're gonna be. Those are the three things that I try and do every day. And you know when I think about getting up and giving a speech, I can't help it -- I have to remember the first speech I ever gave. I was coaching at Rutgers University, that was my first job -- oh, that's wonderful [reaction to applause] -- and I was the freshman coach. That's when freshmen played on freshman teams. And I was so fired up about my first job. I see Lou Holtz, Coach Holtz here. What was it like, the very first job you had, right? The very first time you stood in the locker room to give a pep talk. That's a special place, the locker room, for a coach to give a talk. So my idol as a coach was Vince Lombardi, and I read this book called Commitment To Excellence by Vince Lombardi. And in the book, Lombardi talked about the fist time he spoke before his Green Bay Packer team in the locker room --* they were perennial losers. And I'm reading this and Lombardi said he was thinking should it be a long talk? A short talk? But he wanted it to be emotional, so it would be brief. And here's what he did. Normally you get in the locker room, I don't know, twenty-five minutes, a half hour before the team takes the field; you do your little X's and 0's, and then you give the great Knute Rockne talk. We all do. Speech number eight-four. You pull them right out, you get ready, get your squad ready. Well, this is the first one I ever gave. And I read this thing -- Lombardi, what he said was he didn't go in. He waited. His team was wondering: Where is he? Where is this great coach? He's not there. Ten minutes -- he's still not there. Three minutes before they could take the field Lombardi comes in, bangs the door open, and I think you all remember what great presence he had, alright, great presence. He walked in and he just walked back and forth, like this, just walked, staring at the players. And he said, "All eyes on me." And I'm reading this in this book. I'm getting this picture of Lombardi before his first game and he said "Gentlemen, we will be successful this year, if you can focus on three things, and three things only: Your family, your religion, and the Green Bay Packers." And he...like that...And they knocked the walls down and the rest was history. I said, that's beautiful. I'm going to do that. Your family, your religion, and Rutgers basketball.That's it. I had it. Listen, I'm twenty-one years old. The kids I'm coaching are nineteen, alright? And I'm going to be the greatest coach in the world, the next Lombardi. And...I'm practicing outside of the locker room and the managers tell me "you got to go in." "Not yet, not yet"... family, religion, Rutgers Basketball. All eyes on me. I got it, I got it. Then finally he said, "three minutes," and I said "fine." True story. I go to knock the doors open just like Lombardi. Boom! They didn't open. I almost broke my arm. I was like...Now I was down, the players were looking. Help the coach out, help him out. And now I did like Lombardi, I walked back and forth, and I was going like that with my arm getting the feeling back in it. Finally I said, "Gentlemen, all eyes on me." These kids wanted to play, they're nineteen. "Let's go," I said. "Gentlemen, we'll be successful this year if you can focus on three things, and three things only: Your family, your religion, and the Green Bay Packers," I told them. I did that. I remember that. I remember...where I came from.It's so important to know where you are. And I know where I am right now. How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.I talked about my family, my family's so important. People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. And...that screen is flashing up there thirty seconds like I care about that screen right now, huh? I got tumors all over my body. I'm worried about some guy in the back going thirty seconds, huh? You got a lot, hey va fa napoli, buddy. You got a lot.I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and [as] Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm" -- to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others. Alright, Arthur Ashe Foundation is a wonderful thing, and AIDS, the amount of money pouring in for AIDS is not enough, but it is significant. But if I told you it's ten times the amount that goes in for cancer research. I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. I want to bring it back on the front table. We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.And ESPN has been so kind to support me in this endeavor and allow me to announce tonight, that with ESPN's support, which means what? Their money and their dollars and they're helping me -- we are starting the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research. And its motto is "Don't give up, don't ever give up." And that's what I'm going to try to do every minute that I have left. I will thank God for the day and the moment I have. And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too. But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease. I can't thank ESPN enough for allowing this to happen. And I'm going to work as hard as I can...for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I'm gonna say it again: Cancer can take away all my physical ability. It cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart; and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.I thank you and God bless you all.-Jimmy V 18 years later and it still gives me goosebumps. Need forum help? Private Message legGTLT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KartRacerBoy Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 All that unbroken text just gives me a headache trying to read it. Ick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSFW Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 (edited) "I tell people, if it's in the news, don't worry about it. Because by definition, 'news' is something that almost never happens." - Bruce Schneier, during a TED talk about security. (Great sound-bite, but the TED talk was actually kind underwhelming. He took 20 minute to say that we make better decisions about security when our feelings correspond well to reality. Which really only took him about 3 minute to explain, somewhere in the middle. What makes it disappointing thing is that, having read some of his writing, I know this guy has many fascinating examples of both "security theater" and actual security, but he only talked touched on a couple of those. I hope he does another TED talk that covers more examples, and/or goes into more depth.) Edited December 3, 2011 by NSFW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KartRacerBoy Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 "You can lead a grad student to knowledge, but it sometimes seems goddamn impossible to make them THINK." -- One of my professors back in grad school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSFW Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loc9q1LyF21qewacoo1_500.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSFW Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Love consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another. - George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie_sheen Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 When i was 11 my dad told me i had to start making my bed from now on, i looked at him in confusion..."why do i need to make my bed if im just going to sleep in it again anyway?" I asked. "Why do you wipe your ass if you're just going to shit again anyway?" He replied. I went and made my bed. True story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KartRacerBoy Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 "People who think they know everything are damn irritating to those of us that do." --Isaac Asimov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverLeg Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." - Josh Billings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KartRacerBoy Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 This will piss original intent advocates off: "The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs." William Brennan, US Supreme Court Justice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwdrdayz Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 "Treat others how THEY want to be treated, not how YOU want to be treated" -Tony Alessandra (I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie_sheen Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 "war is like sports...except you bury the loser" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverLeg Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 “If you're going through hell, keep going.” - Sir Winston Churchill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAC5.2 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loc9q1LyF21qewacoo1_500.jpg :lol: [URL="http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/proper-flip-key-interesti-159894.html"]Flip Key Development Thread[/URL] "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - E. Hubbard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 http://www.bedug.com/pics/Fun2/Machiavelli.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSFW Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 "I'm very much into the self-deprecating style of humor. I'm just not very good at it." - Alistair Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 [ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTiAS7cdsYc[/ame] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDII Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 Tell all of your doubters, just watch me. -Greg S. Need forum help? Private Message legGTLT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDII Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 The best revenge is massive success. -Frank Sinatra Need forum help? Private Message legGTLT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Donated Too sigmafour Posted June 6, 2012 I Donated Too Share Posted June 6, 2012 Success has many fathers whilst failure is often an orphan... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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