J. A. Adande Quotes
The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.
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Life is about timing.
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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.
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I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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I'm not a big sports fan.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Slack spread through businesses like wildfire, initially in the tech and media sectors, but now much more widely. At its public launch in February 2014, it had 17,000 users. As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7 million daily active users.
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Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.
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I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
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We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
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It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.
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I'm nicknaming millennials 'the purpose generation' because we're making so many decisions.
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The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.
