Steve Waugh (Stephen Rodger Waugh) Quotes

There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Football

• I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Done
  • Game
  • Control

• I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Trying
  • Next
  • Dave

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • People
  • Game
  • Focus

• I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Think
  • Me
  • Back

• A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Sometimes

• The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Next
  • Apartheid

• I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Power
  • Pretty

• I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Football

• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Black
  • Player
  • Win

• Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Life
  • Love
  • Game

• I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Work
  • Player

• When I wrote 'Marvin Gaye,' my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on a record player... and just instantly make out with each other.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • Player

• A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Shame

• The atheist has no hope.

  

  James Freeman Clarke
  • Hope
  • Atheist

• I think the biggest thing to being an elite-level bobsledder is grit. You have to really want it. It's a very blue-collar sport. We do a lot of the work ourselves; we sand the runners, we wash the sled, we help maintain the sled. Obviously, we have a sled mechanic that travels with us, but a lot of the work we do ourselves.

  

  Lauren Gibbs
  • Work
  • Help
  • Blue

• I was feeling a bit nervous until I came along today. But now I'm looking forward to the shows so much.

  

  Margaret Anderson
  • Today
  • Feeling
  • Shows

• There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don

  

  Steve Waugh
  • Player
  • Next
  • Shame