John David Washington Quotes
In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
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You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can do anything. There's tall doctors, short doctors. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be the tallest guy to play the sport of basketball, football or whatever you want to play.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their trust and their well-being. And you feel very protective of them, even if they're not very nice people.
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Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
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The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
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Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.
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If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.
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Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.
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In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
