Sheryl Swoopes Quotes

It's frustrating - not that I expect to be the same person I was 10 years ago, but I do expect to do certain things. In all honesty, my body for the most part feels really good. But at this point of my career, I have to rely on different parts of my game, knowing how to take some short cuts when you can.

Sheryl Swoopes

• Different
• Body
• Cutting
• Honesty
• Rely
• Frustrating

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• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Need

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Book
  • Always
  • Write

• Isolation is a dream killer.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Dream
  • Isolation
  • Killer

• I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Missing

• I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • People
  • Think
  • Say

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Man

• When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Bores

• Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Dream
  • Positive
  • Dreams

• This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Chinese
  • Factory
  • Laptop

• In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Now
  • Kings
  • Fools

• What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Place

• Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Plan

• As the governor of the state of Arizona, I took an oath to uphold the laws and to protect the people of Arizona. And I'm going to be relentless in it. I'm going to do what is right.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • People

• When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and so you're really hostage those while writing. I am, anyway. And it's only when you finally take the finished thing out of the furnace that you see what it was that went into the making of the thing.

  

  W. S. Di Piero
  • Different
  • Writing

• The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Risk

• Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

  

  Beryl Bender Birch
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Transformation

• It's frustrating - not that I expect to be the same person I was 10 years ago, but I do expect to do certain things. In all honesty, my body for the most part feels really good. But at this point of my career, I have to rely on different parts of my game, knowing how to take some short cuts when you can.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Different
  • Body
  • Cutting