Michael Finley Quotes

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.

Michael Finley

• Thinking
• Opportunity
• Young
• Basketball
• Playing
• League
• Exposure

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• For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Coffee

• There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Young
  • Books
  • Laugh

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • Manager

• I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Work
  • Young

• I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Fire

• Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Future

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

  

  Alan Watts
  • God
  • Thinking

• They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • Up
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• Aidan Gillen is such a great actor, and it was so nice to have an opportunity to work with him, even if it's his last scene, because he had a tone that he'd never had before on the show.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Math

• I thought to myself, 'All right, let's take a look at your resume. You have no financial background. You have basketball, that's what you have, for your whole life.'

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Life
  • Financial
  • Basketball

• I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Thinking
  • Book

• When everyone thinks alike, there isn't much thinking taking place. Get out when you can, not when you have to.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Thinking

• The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Hard
  • Wrestling
  • Passions

• Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Game
  • Football
  • Boys

• My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.

  

  Michael Finley
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Young