William Davis Quotes

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

William Davis

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  Yogi Berra
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• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Up
  • Good
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• Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

  

  Katarina Witt
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• I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• From Enve Composites to Bluehouse Skis, Utah companies are making breakthrough products for biking, winter sports, water sports and more.

  

  Gary Herbert
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• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • School
  • High
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• Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

  

  Larry King
  • Sports
  • Loved
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• I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

  

  Larry King
  • Night
  • Sports
  • Week

• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Mountain
  • Ourselves
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• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • Help
  • Risk

• It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

  

  Ted Ligety
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• Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
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• I do Pilates. And that's best for me... because I can't really do any other sports any more because of my muscles.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Me
  • Best
  • Sports

• I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Football

• Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities presented by their substance and form.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Text

• Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Reality
  • Constant
  • Eternal

• It's important to me that a man is good at taking care of people.

  

  Emily VanCamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

  

  Sara Canning
  • School
  • Childhood

• When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to spend a number of cycles thinking about where I can get the serendipitous book discovery experience that we had in physical book stores.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Challenge
  • Books

• Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

  

  William Davis
  • Sports
  • Mountain
  • Mortality