R.X. Bird Quotes

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

You're all playin' for second place.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

I hate to lose more than I like to win.

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

First master the fundamentals.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

Love makes intellectual pretzels of us all.

Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

Understand the power of asking.

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.