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The people around here are very hard-working. Many of them work at plants. And that is representative of what we have on the football field.
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Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life. Carl Pohlad
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I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear. Arsene Wenger
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In England, football is important for everybody.
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Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.
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The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
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The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
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You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.
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We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son. Gaines Adams
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It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.' George Allen
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Zadie Smith
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I am in my own head most of the time. Vivienne Westwood
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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When you like something, you find time to do it. Yakov Smirnoff
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I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired. Evangeline Lilly