“You play for the name on the front of the jersey, not the name on the back of the jersey.”
Boston Celtics hall-of-fame centre Robert Parish (quoted for instance on https://www.bostoncelticshistory.com/item/the-most-from-the-chief/).
“If I kept my mouth shut, I wouldn’t be here.”
The caption beneath a stuffed speckled brown trout mounted on the wall in the office of Robert S. Bennett, a premier Washington lawyer and fixer, according to Bennett’s Washington Post obituary reprinted in the National Post September 18, 2023
In my latest National Post column I ask people who hate Donald Trump why they can’t talk sensibly about important issues until he barges into the conversation.
“Canada’s bronze medal a moment to be savoured”
National Post September 12, 2023 [1st page of the Sports section].
In my latest Mercatornet column I ask how Americans reached this dreadful pass and what any of us can do about it.
“The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023) – the context was a long-ago crisis in the affairs of the famous jeweler Tiffany’s.
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus.”
Bruce Lee, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)
“Help your pieces so they can help you.”
19th-century chess genius Paul Morphy, widely quoted online [for instance at https://quotefancy.com/quote/1661408/Paul-Morphy-Help-your-pieces-so-they-can-help-you]