Wim Crouwel Quotes
The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.
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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.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
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The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
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Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.
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I still feel like I've got a lot of great football in front of me and the way that I've taken care of myself better the last few years. I think is going to put me in position to be able to play really well late in my 30s and even in my early 40s, possibly, if they'd like to keep me around that long and I can still play a little bit.
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I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It's a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.
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I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.
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I guess if you're a professional mascot, you're doing it for the money, but a college mascot just wants to be out there.
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Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.
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Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.
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The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.
