Joe Torre Quotes
It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.
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I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
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Baseball is a team game.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.
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When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.
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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
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Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
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I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.
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The paparazzi is kind of crazy here in L.A., but it's nothing like it is in London. They are animals over there, it's insane.
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Rock climbing and surfing are two of my favorite things in life.
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It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.
