Joe Gibbs Quotes
We'd had three tough losses in a row and everybody was down. I think our players said to themselves: 'Our backs are up against the wall and we've got no other option other than just to win, and if we lose another game we're probably out.' So they kind of took it as this last stand, and it was that way every week . . .somehow we found a way to win those last five.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Ninety percent of them artists in general are forgotten ten minutes after they’re dead.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.
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I know me. I only have brothers, and I know that I would do anything for them, and I would back them up to the ends of the Earth.
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We'd had three tough losses in a row and everybody was down. I think our players said to themselves: 'Our backs are up against the wall and we've got no other option other than just to win, and if we lose another game we're probably out.' So they kind of took it as this last stand, and it was that way every week . . .somehow we found a way to win those last five.
