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.

Willie Lanier

• Team
• Football
• Wanted
• Intimidating

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

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• 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.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Parents

• I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Player

• As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Night
  • Team
  • Player

• I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Family
  • Team
  • Legacy

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Team
  • Cricket

• 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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Love

• Whether we're stuffing our faces with Kogi tacos or playing a pickup game of football outside the stages, there's never a shortage of fun behind the scenes on 'Murder In The First.'

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Football

• I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Football
  • Things
  • Games

• If there's one perk, it's being the quarterback of America's team and being able to make a difference off the field.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • America
  • Team
  • Difference

• If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Team
  • Leadership

• 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.

  

  Andriy Shevchenko
  • Great
  • Important
  • Team

• You can never really relax until you've signed that contract with your team.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Team
  • Relax

• My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.

  

  James Carville
  • Football
  • Saturday

• I said, 'If I don't play football for a living, I'm going to get into show business.'

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Business
  • Football

• 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.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Life
  • Game
  • Football

• I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • School
  • Girl
  • Football

• In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock.

  

  Bob Griese
  • Football
  • Possession
  • Clock

• There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Expectation

• The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
  • Animal
  • Chinese

• 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.

  

  Willie Lanier
  • Team
  • Football
  • Wanted