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Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

John Kessel

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John Kessel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 24
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Buffalo
New York
John Joseph Vincent Kessel
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Anything
Many
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Seldom

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A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.
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I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'
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False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.
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It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.
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Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.
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Focus on winning the contest with yourself.
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The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.
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