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There's a great quote that Nick Saban said. He said that average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached, and great players want to be told the truth. Michael had a giant ego and a giant drive, but he would run up to the coach and tell me what I need to get better at.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain

"Buster was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I was so stressed out being the champ, my hair was falling out. I was stressed out, but l was playing it out like I was a hard guy...scared to death little kid and you've got the whole sport on your back. Everyone is trying to get your money they're trying to sue you. "Whew! Relief! It ha

the dynamic of our relationship was similar to that of a cantankerous boxing coach and his scrappy young fighter, an analogy I most certainly inherited from Walt.

Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies

Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to

John McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)

“He’s the best I’ve ever seen and maybe the best ever in terms of visualization. He will see exactly the perfect race. He will see it like he is in the stands and he’ll see it like he’s in the water.”– Michael’s coach, Bob Bowman

Kevin L. Michel • Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face"

Mike Tyson

Catfish—“It’s a cliché, but it’s a brilliant, generation-defining documentary.” To Be and to Have—“This is a beautiful and simple film about a one-room school in France, and what happens over the course of one year.” The Overnighters—“This covers oil exploration in North Dakota, which has become perhaps bigger than the Gold Rush in the 1800s, due t

Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

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