T.R. Patrick Quotes

If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do that anytime. That's not being cocky. That's confidence.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

Trust that you can get back up and not give in. Ever.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line.

Dont shoot where it is, son. Shoot where its going to be.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.

Any person that says, "Of course I wouldn't do ______" doesn't know their own heart.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Now that we're men, I changed my underwear.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Mel Gibson will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.

It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.