J. R. Martinez Quotes

Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.

J. R. Martinez

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• I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Running
  • Space
  • Hiking

• Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Thought

• I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Long
  • City
  • Football

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Different
  • Kid
  • Responsible

• When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Real
  • Game
  • Running

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • College
  • Church
  • Football

• My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Football
  • Never
  • Husband

• To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Couple
  • Swimming

• Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Football
  • Old

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Running

• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Realize

• When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Running
  • Focus
  • Opportunities

• I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Think
  • Running
  • Sleep

• I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Want
  • Death

• All that running and exercise can do for you is make you healthy.

  

  Denny McLain
  • Running
  • Exercise
  • Healthy

• I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

  

  Leo Kottke

• Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestimated.

  

  Carol Loomis

• Through adversity we find our better self.

  

  Michelle Waterson
  • Self
  • Adversity

• Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Running
  • Football
  • Basketball