George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
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Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'
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Energy. Rotation. To put my best teams on the court. . . . To cover Sam. To get more minutes of a strong defender on Sam as I can.
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We've lost an enormous number of games in the final seconds. They made plays in the last couple of minutes and we didn't.
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She spent five minutes on the history of the family relationships. Here was a white family that had worked with the King family. That was a special treat.
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You have to play until the whistle blows. I thought we let up during the last five minutes of the game.
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When the fourth official put two minutes up I just thought blow your whistle because you could feel that as soon as we conceded the first goal we were jittery and worried.
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We all understand the economics of the Super Bowl - 10 or 12 minutes of the ball in motion will be stretched into three and a half hours or more of money-making commercials.
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Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network's schedule.
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For eight minutes we played without our aircraft carrier, that's resolve right there. I don't know if we could have done that earlier in the year.
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It takes only five minutes from the box to the water, with no tools. I can put the boat together with my eyes closed.
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When you're up that much in the last two minutes you just hand the game away. We just don't play mentally tough enough at the end of games.
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Those last three minutes were brutal and broke my heart.
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We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.
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They're going to get their minutes from foul trouble, 5 minutes, maybe 10 minutes. They've got to learn how to play that way. That's what they're going to get early in their careers. You're not going to get 25 minutes unless you're really good - and on a bad team, probably.