Billy Donovan Quotes

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

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• Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musicals

• The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Sin

• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Day
  • Happen
  • Late

• First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • First

• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Life
  • Die
  • Fall

• I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Want
  • Violence
  • Gift

• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Win

• I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Me
  • Duty
  • Volunteer

• It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Day

• When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Perspective

• I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • City
  • Summer
  • Spring

• Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Progress

• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Paris

• I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Proud
  • Right
  • Part

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• This paves the way for the IAEA to begin verifying and monitoring Iran’s nuclear-related commitments under the agreement, as requested by the U.N. Security Council and authorized by the IAEA Board.

  

  Yukiya Amano
  • Agreement
  • Nuclear
  • Verifying

• I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • People
  • Myself
  • Week

• To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Control
  • Player
  • Winning

• Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

  

  Billy Donovan
  • Win
  • Players
  • Systems