A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain't ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man's jaw with his fist.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.
I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.