Nick Foles (Nicholas Edward Foles) Quotes
Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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Baseball is a team game.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
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I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
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I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
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My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
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When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.
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I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.
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I just want to be known for what I do, not who I know.
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I'm excited about it. It's been about five or six years since I was involved with the All-Star game, and we had a good time together.
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What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long term effects.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.
