Bud Grant Quotes

I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment; that's all it is.

Bud Grant

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• Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.

  

  Nate Holland
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• The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Man
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• I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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  • Good
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• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• My hero is Roger Federer.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Hero
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• I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Star

• I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Morning
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• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Soul
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  • Thought

• Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Work
  • Writing
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• When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • World
  • Rest

• Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Star
  • Couple
  • Actor

• My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
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• And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Sports
  • Events
  • Realized

• People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Life
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• I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

  

  Larry King
  • Sports
  • Thought
  • Curious

• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Man
  • Beginning
  • Sports

• I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Think
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• I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • God
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  • Help

• I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Hope
  • Peace

• My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Family
  • Father
  • Immigration

• I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

  

  David Hepworth
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Love never dies, what is within is more important than what is without, the best is not always the most obvious, and once you've loved truly, Thor, then you know the way.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Important
  • Love
  • Never

• I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment; that's all it is.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Star
  • Sports
  • Hero