Ned Colletti Quotes
I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
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I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
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We understand what President Trump means when he talks about taking the country back. He does not see America as a country of people from diverse backgrounds united around values of freedom and respect. In his 'American carnage' version of our country, immigrants and refugees are a threat.
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Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.
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If Bitcoin is a better gold or seen as a type of gold-like asset, then it could be in the trillions on a market cap.
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But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.
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I have a ton of cousins on my mom's side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.
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It's not something that I have to do tomorrow or next week. I feel real comfortable just taking my time.
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One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
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What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
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Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
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I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.
