Edward Charles Ford (Whitey Ford) Quotes
They had to play really, really well and they did because we played one of our better games lately. When you're going against a team that's better than you, playing a great game in their home gym, you're probably not going to come out on the winning side.
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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.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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Baseball is a team game.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
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When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.
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The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.
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To be honest, I would not want to put that band back together. I like the band I play with now.
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
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But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.
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It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.
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They had to play really, really well and they did because we played one of our better games lately. When you're going against a team that's better than you, playing a great game in their home gym, you're probably not going to come out on the winning side.
