Gary Speed Quotes
Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
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We always go into a game to win.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
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During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
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It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.
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Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
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I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
