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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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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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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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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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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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
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I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.
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My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'
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Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
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Despatch is the soul of business.
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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.
