Mike McCarthy Quotes

Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.

Mike McCarthy

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• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Happens

• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Masterpiece

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Inevitable
  • Incredible

• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Day
  • Now
  • Outside

• I'd like to do a really masculine film.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Like
  • Film
  • Masculine

• When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Never
  • Down
  • Charity

• A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Different
  • Single
  • Tree

• In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Life
  • College
  • Better

• To be honest, I haven't felt at my best since this tournament began. I didn't feel good with the court or the balls. But those are excuses. You have to accept when you don't play well and somebody else does.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Excuses

• People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Great

• Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • People
  • God

• Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best.

  

  Alfonso Soriano
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Proud

• No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Good
  • Art
  • Together

• I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov

• No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

  

  Claire McCaskill

• So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Doing
  • Overcome

• Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

  

  Marty Meehan
  • Up
  • High
  • Moral

• Confidence is sky high, but we're also all very grounded. We know, in football, nothing can be taken for granted.

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • High
  • Taken
  • Football

• Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Government
  • Leadership
  • Information Age

• Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.

  

  Mike McCarthy
  • Football
  • Leadership
  • Overcome