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If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
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If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.
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I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.
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With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold.
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Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
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Say something personal, not from a publicist.
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When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.
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There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
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A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.
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In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'