John Fitzgerald
John Fitzgerald
alone fourth three welcome
The three of us have been alone for such a long time. We welcome a fourth person.
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Argentina are a mighty strong nation in men's tennis. It's a tough ask but a good challenge.
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Sometimes these Davis Cup doubles are on a knife's edge, especially when it's a 1-1 scenario, it shows how pivotal they are, but this was a good effort, tough players those two guys. You've got Max ranked three in the world (in doubles) and the other guy's a hell of a hitter of the ball. These are not easy to win. That was a very good performance.
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That play shouldn't have worked on paper. But it did. Their linemen were confused, and I was supposed to have a lead block, but I got in anyway.
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We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: ""smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.""Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...
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The pressure is always there and this match was decided by a couple of points. It's just a matter of winning the right points at the right time and that's what they did.
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I have played 11 years of Davis Cup and I think once I won a fifth rubber so it doesn't come around that often. It is a special moment for Chris.
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I don't think he'll just go out there just to practice. But I think he would be real good for our defensive backs and receivers alike.
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Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality
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The basis of effective government if public confidence.
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There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan
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You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.
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The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln
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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds