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Posted on June 9, 2025

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945

Posted on March 2, 2025March 2, 2025

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”—Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player, 1961–

Posted on September 18, 2024September 17, 2024

“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.”—(‘King Lear’), William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616

Posted on September 1, 2024September 1, 2024

“Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.”—Doug Larson, American columnist, 1926-2017

Posted on July 24, 2024

“Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”—Antoine de St. Exupéry, French writer, 1900-1944

Posted on June 12, 2023June 12, 2023

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”—Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player, 1961–

Posted on September 19, 2022September 18, 2022

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”—Lawrence Peter (“Yogi”) Berra, American baseball catcher, 1925-2015

Posted on December 11, 2021

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.”—Satchel Paige, Major League Baseball pitcher, 1906-1982

Posted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021

“Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting.”—Lawrence Peter (“Yogi”) Berra, American professional baseball catcher, 1925-2015

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