The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.


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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON
I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON
There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS
Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE
I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON