Quotes about american-athlete
american-athlete balls
Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can. Dan Quisenberry
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If you never give up, you'll be successful. Dan O'Brien
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They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting. Charlie Haas
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Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. Tony Dorsett
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I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you. Cathy Rigby
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They were two halves that together formed a magical whole. Dick Button
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I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly. Bob Uecker
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More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. Billy Sunday
american-athlete failures
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. Bill Walton
american-athlete became stayed
Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy. Bo Jackson
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First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
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As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
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In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season. Lou Gehrig
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
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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
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It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up. Emmitt Smith
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I don't know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze. Richard Petty
american-athlete number
Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey. Jack Dempsey
american-athlete lose
We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.
american-athlete god
If God is watching us, we might as well be interesting.
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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
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A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.
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WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks. Tom Brady