George Karl Quotes

When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

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• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Sympathy

• People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Religion
  • Name

• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Yes

• I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

  

  Ice T
  • Easy
  • Week
  • Can

• I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Intelligence
  • Reform
  • Context

• Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Best

• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Business
  • War

• For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Leadership
  • Diplomacy

• I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • Person

• Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Eyes
  • Focus
  • Tax

• A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nothing

• My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Always
  • Say
  • View

• Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Education
  • Fire

• Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)

  

  Aristophanes
  • High
  • Thoughts

• Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Lawyer

• When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Different
  • Family
  • Together

• We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Way
  • Nuclear Weapons

• When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fun

• I came to the UFC to fight with top-level fighters and become the undisputed, undefeated champion. This is my goal.

  

  Khabib Nurmagomedov
  • Champion

• In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Player

• My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

  

  John Cusack
  • Great
  • House
  • Dad

• When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

  

  George Karl
  • Player
  • Lines
  • Corners