Champ Bailey Quotes

I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.

Champ Bailey

• Player
• Blessed
• Luck
• Athleticism

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• Good design should be honest.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Good
  • Design
  • Honest

• Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • Never

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Study
  • Year
  • Differences

• Sleep is the best meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Ideas
  • Matter
  • Rather

• The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Negative

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Never
  • Say

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Weird

• I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Nice

• It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Play

• Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Nature
  • Chess
  • Goddess

• There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Live
  • History
  • Architecture

• The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.

  

  Billy Burke
  • Pretty

• Grieve not that I die young.

  

  Lady Flora Hastings
  • Die
  • Sad
  • Grieving

• My goal is to play better than my seed. If I'm seeded sixth, I want to try to go to the semifinals. If I'm seeded third, I'm going to shoot for the finals.

  

  Katrina Adams

• I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Together

• Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Player

• I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Player
  • Blessed
  • Luck