Tom Bradley
Tom Bradley
The first African-American mayor of Los Angeles, California, an office which he held from 1973 to 1993. He had the longest tenure of any mayor in the city's history before the city passed established term limits in 1990.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 December 1917
CityCalvert, TX
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I was sad and I was disappointed, ... I was shocked. We knew that the trial was coming to a close and I called in leaders from the police department and from the community to try to develop a strategy.
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Soil gets saturated and loses it's structure and when the wind gusts come; basically, the soil can't hold up the tree.
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It's good sometimes when you can say, 'Let's keep it going,' ... But I think they could use a little bit of time to gather themselves and get ready to play Michigan State.
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They might be the best team in the history of football, but not today.
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They really went on a mission to accomplish something special this year, and they really worked. You can sense something during the winter program, spring practice, the way they trained.
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The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.
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When you travel, people don't realize that you can only carry so many guys. He gives us an extra guy at a lot of different spots. He could go in and even play corner if we got in a real jam. He understands the schemes and everything we're doing so that's a real plus for us.
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He's a heck of a decision-maker. He's much more comfortable back there now that he's doing his reads. He's smoother. ... He's making the right decisions, getting the ball where he wants to get to. From game to game to game, he's impressed.
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Fabian is the only one I saw pitch last season. He pitched well against us in a couple games. Control problems got after him a couple other times. He needs to work on keeping his arm slot consistent.
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he was a man who actually could have changed the course of American history.
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Our bye week doesn't come until week 10. If we survive that long with all the injuries coming our way.
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keep it in perspective and tend to their knitting. The same people patting you on the back were kicking you in the butt not too long ago.
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He's a very versatile guy. We use him all over the place. He wears a lot of different hats for us in that secondary.