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sports expression goal
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. David Foster Wallace
sports athlete men
One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.
sports fighting boxing
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. David Bailey
sports long fans
Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service. Dave Checketts
sports strong wrestling
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding. Dave Bautista
sports past years
I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today. Dawn Fraser
sports winning ifs
If you're good at it, you can win.
sports excellence winter-olympics
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
sports inspirational-sports inspirational-life
I've worked hard all my life.
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past stuff helping
That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help. Tommy Lee
past thinking ideas
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. Tommy Lee Jones
past doors feelings
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos. Tom Wolfe
past years done
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years. Steven Spielberg
past average years
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago. Steven Johnson
past sight darkness
Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness. Steven Erikson
past banjos capture
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. Steve Martin
past way remember
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it. Steve Berry
years sam-cooke
I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old. Bobby Womack
years issues adequate
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
years cpr police
In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR. Bobby Sherman
years guy half
At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right. Bobby Knight
years littles pressure
With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure. Debby Ryan
years acting want
I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.
years water humanity
[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year. E. O. Wilson
years storm world
This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.
years goal littles
Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better Drew Brees