Quotes about american-athlete
american-athlete basketball
I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that. Tim Hardaway
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I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team.
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I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.
american-athlete people run team time
If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.
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They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top. Tyler Hamilton
american-athlete cost
We're not saying that you don't need coal, but when you do mine the coal there are responsibilities to it. It may cost a little more, but it is the right thing to do. Kevin Richardson
american-athlete outside simply winning
We are on the outside of that cosy little set-up and they simply don't like the idea that we are in a potentially winning position. Steve Blake
american-athlete black father money particular picked time
And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. Willie Mays
american-athlete people
You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much. William Scott
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There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
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On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
american-athlete concerned flat longer whether
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
american-athlete best columbia courses
The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
american-athlete britain certainly greek including kinds positive repetitive sort system
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
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We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. Whitey Herzog
american-athlete fired hired money somewhere
The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
american-athlete attitude believe people
Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there. Venus Williams
american-athlete bedroom kids open somebody
I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you. Cathy Rigby
american-athlete
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete. Bo Jackson
american-athlete kids school
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
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We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen.
american-athlete fastest man
Everyone is coming after me now. Fine, let them keep on coming. I'm the fastest man in the world, no doubt. Maurice Greene
american-athlete best defensive intimidate line people recognize
Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time. Merlin Olsen
american-athlete brilliant charge critics include
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
american-athlete enemies man subject
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
american-athlete caught focusing spare thinking
The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals. Peggy Fleming
american-athlete stopped
We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.
american-athlete both enjoy gates knew spend talk time walk
We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on. Ralph Boston
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
american-athlete
I don't know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze. Richard Petty
american-athlete contra electronic la mostly music performed recorded
When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.
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We needed Larry Brown. Me more so than anyone. I wanted Larry to do a great job for us and I thought he would and I thought he could. Isiah Thomas
american-athlete cup far few judge national past people steps teams
We've made some big steps over the past few years, but the World Cup is when people judge the national teams and how far they are. Claudio Reyna