![Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.](/assets/img/quote-photos/being-a-soldier-in-the-wars-of-modern-power-politics-was-like-being-on-a-team-i.jpg)
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sports feet size
[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches. Carol Mann
sports team school
[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.
sports baseball moving
I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball. Carlos Delgado
sports dumb say-anything
The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Carl Everett
sports squash gambling
Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent. Agnes Smedley
sports growing-up kids
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre. Aaron Tveit
sports fun believe
My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful. Alan Thicke
sports selfish enjoy
On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.
sports school yards
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess. Alan Shepard
team winning goal
My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win. Carlos Beltran
team games trying
Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.
team levels want
I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve. Carlos Gonzalez
team winning thinking
I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.
team different culture
More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet. Carlos Ghosn
team hate known
I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time. Carl Crawford
team
We were a team without a personality. With Ron, we have one. Rick Adelman
team threw touch worried
We were always the better team but Everton threw on their He-Men and I was always worried they would get a touch or ricochet. Steve Bruce
team father creating
Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit. Alan Shearer
war believe president
We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize. Carol Moseley Braun
war struggle snakes
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.
war men bombers
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now. Carol Vorderman
warrior experience emptiness
There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal. Carlos Castaneda
warrior men average
... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.
warrior world way
Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way
warrior men somewhere-else
A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.
warrior consistency spirit
...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
warrior ghouls worst
If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.