Quote of the Day

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the Day

One can never consent to creep when

one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Adams Keller

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So long as men worship the Caesars and

Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will

duly arise and make them miserable.

Aldous Huxley

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire

to improve (or save) the world and a

desire to enjoy (or savor) the world.

This makes it hard to plan the day.

Elwyn Brooks "E.B." White

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Perhaps the truth depends

on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

46" Bull Red

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There is no salvation in becoming

adapted to a world which is crazy.

Henry Valentine Miller

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots

blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

John J. Havlicek

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There are some that only employ words for

the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

François-Marie Arouet (a.k.a. Voltaire)

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To become truly great, one has to

stand with people, not above them.

Charles-Louis de Secondat

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We turn, not older with years,

but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson

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The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus

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There is a light at the end of the tunnel...

hopefully it's not a freight train.

Mariah Carey

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Any man can make mistakes, but

only an idiot persists in his error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

FLASH!

A short course meter swimming world record was not broken in the last thirteen seconds!

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The best and fastest way to learn a sport

is to watch and imitate a champion.

Jean Claude Killy

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They say it is better to be poor and happy than

rich and miserable, but how about a compromise

like moderately rich and just moody?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa

which freezes a billion people to stone every

night, staring fixedly, that Siren which

called and sang and promised so

much and gave, after all, so little.

Ray Douglas Bradbury

The Battle Rages

Don't give up, Title IX Reformers!

We're gaining ground on the Radical Feminists. Women are joining the cause and are helping turn the tide.

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And the day came when the risk it took to

remain tight inside the bud was more

painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anaïs Nin

Are you kidding me?!?!

You didn't know that was "Under My Thumb" by The Rolling Stones?

Go start your 5,000 fly...

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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has

already earned my contempt. He has been

given a large brain by mistake, since for

him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

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The more original a discovery,

the more obvious it seems afterward.

Arthur Koestler

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Pick battles big enough to matter,

small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge

to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your

ambitions. Small people always do that,

but the really great make you feel

that you, too, can become great.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain)

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He knows nothing and thinks he

knows everything. That points

clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

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Leadership is getting someone to do what

they don't want to do, to achieve

what they want to achieve.

Tom Wade Landry

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The happiness of life is made up of minute

fractions - the little, soon-forgotten

charities of a kiss or smile, a kind

look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I am not afraid of storms for I am

learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts

I want to think, all the walks I want to take,

all the books I want to read, and

all the friends I want to see.

John Burroughs

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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to

get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen

these days is to go about repeating the very

phrases which our founding fathers used

in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard

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Science may have found a cure for most evils;

but it has found no remedy for the worst of

them all - the apathy of human beings.

Helen Adams Keller

Be Thankful for the Courageous

We'll be hearing more on the Don King case in December. It's taken people with an incredible amount of courage to step forward and tell their stories.

Are you a new reader who'd like to catch up? The original post on the allegations was back in June of 2007. Read it here.

There have been many more posts (and reader comments) since then.

In April of this year, a post on the outcome of the trial went up. Read it here.

The site mentioned in the post is scheduled to be opened back up after an upcoming hearing.

Quote of the Day

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every

opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

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Man is so made that whenever anything

fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Jean de la Fontaine

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Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure

understanding, at least when they are between

the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.

James Thurber

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand

that is dealt you is determinism;

the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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When you're racing, it's life. Anything that

happens before or after is just waiting.

Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen

Quote of the Day

I want to be the fastest woman in the world -

in a manner of speaking.

Shirley Muldowney

Quote of the Day

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger,

more complex, and more violent. It takes

a touch of genius - and a lot of courage -

to move in the opposite direction.

Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

The question was...

..."Who's the real chick magnet?"

Quote of the Day

The world is moving so fast these days that the

man who says it can't be done is generally

interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quote of the Day

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote,

and I didn't know what a quote was.

I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr.

(a.k.a. Joltin' Joe DiMaggio)

Quote of the Day

Television has done much for psychiatry by

spreading information about it, as well

as contributing to the need for it.

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

Quote of the Day

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the

back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Edward Francis "Ed" Gardner

Quote of the Day

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Green Hubbard

Ewe Guise Sleigh Mi

Get off my back! Give me a break. I'm still recovering.

Last night was the Sarah Brightman concert at American Airlines Center.

It was a great show, but it can't top the one we saw in Houston at the Toyota Center.

If y'all want info on signing day, visit Swimming World's site here. Jason gets paid the big bucks to handle that.

Quote of the Day

Remember that a government big enough to

give you everything you want is also big

enough to take away everything you have.

Barry Morris Goldwater

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It is well that war is so terrible,

else we should grow too fond of it.

General Robert E. Lee

Quote of the Day

Personally, I am always ready to learn

although I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Goodell Joins Title IX Reform Movement

Former "Animal Lane" d-man Brian Goodell has joined the Board of Trustees at the Fairness in Sports Foundation.

Goodell was an Olympic Gold Medalist, World Record Holder, and NCAA Champion.

As a member of the UCLA men’s swim team, Goodell has been trying to bring men’s swimming back to UCLA since it was dropped in 1994 - the same year the university eliminated its men’s and women’s gymnastics programs. The school restored women’s gymnastics a few months later; however, it would not reinstate the men’s programs despite the number of Olympic and NCAA champions they produced.

Check out their post on the new swimming complex being built at UCLA here.

While your at it, check out MOMMSS (Moms On a Mission to Save Sports) here.