When all is said and done the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism those petty good feelings pity and remorse?
I was a weedy kid not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
I had spindly little ankles and growing up in Canada I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball football basketball and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win fans were not only in a recession but trapped in a longstanding deeply entrenched sports depression.
I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.
We're going to have more kids playing and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.
Of course in our grade school in those days there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues primarily the NFL.
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
In emerging democracies like Russia in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies even if those societies are side by side.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.