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“Every great athlete has at least one moment that will forever haunt them because of what might have been. After years of literal sweat and tears, a dream can be over in seconds. This is my moment.”

Book:Ten Thousand Tries

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“Dad would say, In the end, what is soccer? It's just a game. It's air in a leather ball. It's kicking a ball across lines painted on a field. Just a game. But for us, it was always more than that. It was how Patrick Maroni and Coach taught us how to live. How to be a team. How to say good-bye.”

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Book:Ten Thousand Tries

Source: Ten Thousand Tries

“Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.”

Life Lessons

Book:Crusader's Cross

Source: Crusader's Cross

“Even now, when Benny and I are running down the soccer field and the wind is blowing through my Messi hair and the crowd is chanting my name (hey, I can dream, right?) and the sun is shining on my face and I'm going so fast I feel like I'm flying - he's with me. My dad. I feel him everywhere, but especially on the field. With me. His Golden Boy.”

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Book:Ten Thousand Tries

Source: Ten Thousand Tries

“If you have the heart of a human being and you become the parent of a human being, then even if it exhausts every bit of your energy, until that child can walk alone I want you to do your duty as a parent.”

Children Humanity Responsibility Family

Book:Autobiography of a Geisha

Source: Autobiography of a Geisha

“I don't know if it's because they're protective of their daughters or not, but all the men eat together, boss and employees included, and the women eat whatever is left. I don't like it; I think a family should eat together.”

Family

Book:Letters from Thailand

Source: Letters from Thailand

“Since there was no picture of the old country in our house and since I didn't have one etched in my mind, the old country came to mean my grandmother. Whatever it was, she was. Whatever she was, it was.”

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Book:Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

Source: Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

“My favorite of {Netflix's] descriptors is "chosen family." A big part of the evergreen appeal of big hits like The Office, Parks and Recreation, New Girl, 30 Rock, etc., is the way in which a bunch of ragtag misfits commit to being not just "workplace proximity associates" or roommates or friends of friends, but people who are inextricably, irremovably interwoven into one another's lives on a daily basis... For me, that's family crystallized.”

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Book:Prayers for the People: Things We Didn't Know We Could Say to God

Source: Prayers for the People: Things We Didn't Know We Could Say to God

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