D'Brickashaw Ferguson Quotes
In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.
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I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
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It is frightening to see how easily the church accepts all this. Hardly had it achieved peace before it itself began to persecute. … It commenced the persecution of heretics, and primarily, of course, those who contested the truth and validity of this alliance of empire and church.
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I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
