Amos Alonzo Stagg Quotes

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

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• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
  • God
  • You
  • Own

• American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • Band
  • Brilliant

• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Why
  • Want
  • Food

• You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Love
  • Want
  • Everyday

• I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Women
  • Real
  • Interesting

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Friends
  • Age

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Quality

• As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Eternal
  • Optimist
  • Liverpool

• I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

  

  Xavi
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Looking

• I think I have it all. But I won't say that the credit for all that goes to me. I think the credit for all that goes to everybody around me. I mean, I have it all because my entire family is so cooperative. I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there. So, I think it's, you know, in a way, a two-way street.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Children
  • Family

• I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

  

  Matt Ross
  • Work

• I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Night
  • Quality

• When I decided to leave the military, I realized that the skills I acquired there were transferable to the commercial world both in leadership and the information technology field. I made the decision to move to Oracle because of its strong leadership role.

  

  Keith Kellogg
  • World
  • Strong
  • Technology

• I've been proud of our guys, the way they fight. We fight extremely hard.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Way
  • Proud

• Be black, shine, aim high.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • High
  • Black
  • Shine

• Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Proud
  • Cool
  • Lose

• Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Death
  • Day
  • Child

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

  

  Michael Owen
  • Training
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

  

  Amos Alonzo Stagg
  • Building
  • Coaching
  • Manhood