Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson
Actor, stuntman and cowboy who won an Academy Award for his role as Sam the Lion in the 1971 Western, The Last Picture Show.
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 June 1918
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We're going through a tough time at the plate. But it's a long season. There's plenty of time to turn it around.
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The scenario of New Orleans is you have wounded people helping wounded people.
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I've shown there's not going to be a hole in the outfield - although (Thursday) I proved otherwise on that line drive hit to me, ... It's a play I should make. I just didn't make it. I take pride in my defense.
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I've resigned myself. Everybody has had to resign themselves. We've been told it's not going to change. A lot of people are upset at the limited number of tickets, a good number of people. They changed something that was a traditional thing. Our perspective is that it's always been at the Coliseum. If they make such a dramatic change, the decision should involve the students. The bottom line is, it's our ceremony.
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Our team was a little inexperienced. We kind of peaked at district. Our inexperience caught up with us on this course. The course won.
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People can put things in your food and drinks to sabotage you, like they did to me in Seoul in 1988. I'm not a cheat - I do what I am supposed to do to win.
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The things that are working here are locally driven right now.
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At 2-2 in the count, I was trying to shorten up my swing.
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Current opportunities for less-skilled workers to come in legally are laughable when compared with the economic needs.
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We're definitely going to have our work cut out for us. (Corpus Christi) King, the defending district champ, is still pretty good and Miller is up and coming so simply put, we are going to have to take care of business if we want to get to regional.
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Yesterday (Tuesday) we put ourselves into position to do what we did today (Wednesday). I was overly pleased with the way we hung in there and pulled things out, especially in difficult conditions.
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We had two men on, and I couldn't get a bunt down.
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We've got speculators calling us -- mostly from California and the Northeast -- who say, 'We'll just send crews out there and start building hundreds of homes,' There's a lot of interest in securing a hundred to a thousand acres of land.
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I still feel like I have to make the team. Here, nothing is given to me. I have to earn it. That's a tough outfield to break. It's not going to be easy for any outfielder.