Willie Lanier Quotes
We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as well as they could. Our team was too big and too good to intimidate.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.
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I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.
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The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.
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The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.
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I'm going to start a polo team with my friend, and we're trying to collect as many horses as we can. You have to find time for things you love.
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I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.
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If there's one perk, it's being the quarterback of America's team and being able to make a difference off the field.
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If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
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It meant a lot to me that Chelsea have wanted me for the last three years and that is the reason I chose them. It was important for me to come to a club with the same level of excellence. It is a great team and it is important to play for a great team.
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You can never really relax until you've signed that contract with your team.
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My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
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I said, 'If I don't play football for a living, I'm going to get into show business.'
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I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.
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I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.
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In France, it's easy to know which team is going to win the game, whereas in England, anywhere you play, you know it's going to be difficult.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.
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I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.
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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as well as they could. Our team was too big and too good to intimidate.
