Steve Waugh (Stephen Rodger Waugh) Quotes
It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
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When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
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If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.
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It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
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Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
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My training has always been really tough. I've always worked hard. I've always been very committed to my training and focused on my workout.
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I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
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Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.
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I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.
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So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention
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Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
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I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
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Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.
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In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.
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Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
