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.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• 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.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Support

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Spring

• 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.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Real
  • Lives
  • Little

• You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Inspiration
  • Influences

• There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Listening
  • Period
  • Beauty

• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Good
  • Celebrity

• 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.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• 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.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Gold

• 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.

  

  Maulik Pancholy
  • Time
  • Family
  • Money

• The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

  

  Ali Babacan
  • Balance
  • Promise

• Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

  

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • Proud

• I give 110 per cent all the time.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Time

• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Faith

• I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Music
  • Country

• And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

  

  Meg Ryan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Weekend

• I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don’t want you to think of me and feel sad.

  

  Esther Earl
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Feel Sad

• I keep track of my kids sometimes with social media. I have to check TMZ every morning to see what's going on, and then at night, I go to bed with Snapchat.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Morning

• So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Men
  • Grandparents

• 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.

  

  Ned Colletti
  • Player
  • Ability
  • Expect