Balanced Quote by Micah Parsons

“Power must be balanced, at least slightly. See what it has done to his wits? He rules out of fear and intimidation, not loyalty.”

— Jeff Wheeler

As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.

— Urijah Faber

Football and boxing helped me immensely. Those sports helped me become dangerous.

— Baron Corbin

People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and…

— Herschel Walker

Football and boxing are my two favorite sports.

— Omar Epps

I relate football with boxing, with a street fight. In both cases there is always one moment, a second, in which someone shows fear…

— Diego Simeone

To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction…

— Charlie Pierce

“I know Jojo is innocent because I can read it in the unmarked swell of him: his smooth face, ripe with baby fat; his…

— Jesmyn Ward

Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet.

— Richard Stearns

“But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you…

— M.R. James

“While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she…

— Tracy Chevalier

First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is…

— Lucretius

“In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a sun-washed treeless…

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

“What creature goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noonday, on three in the evening? Man. In childhood he creeps on…

— Oedipus

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer