Bob Thomason Quotes

I don't know if we can play any better than we played tonight. Our guys took hits from them and kept on fighting.

Bob Thomason

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• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Style
  • Natural
  • Played

• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Fighting
  • France
  • Racing

• I'm not surprised 'The Avengers' has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Time
  • Men
  • Man

• The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • War
  • Problem
  • Fighting

• Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • You
  • Passion
  • Fighting

• Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.

  

  Walter Reuther
  • Fighting

• I've seen America in this campaign, and I like what I see. It's worth fighting for and that's a fight I'll never stop. As for the battle that ends tonight, I do believe, as my father once said, that 'No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out.'

  

  Al Gore
  • Believe
  • America
  • Father

• I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free...I haven't fought the destructive forces of socialism for more than twenty years in order to stop now, when the critical phase of the struggle is upon us.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Country
  • Free
  • Stop

• When the ANC says that they will target British companies, this shows what a typical terrorist organisation it is. I fought terrorism all my life and if more people fought it, and we were all more successful, we should not have it and I hope that everyone in this hall will think it is right to go on fighting terrorism. They will if they believe in democracy.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• You can read books on stuff all day long, but until you get out there and just do it, if you want to start playing, and you want to make some music, then go out and play. Go find yourself a venue and play, even if it's in your home. Just play every day. You win the fight by fighting.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Music
  • Long
  • Home

• I was introduced to fighting by my brother - he's a tattooer, a tough guy - and I completely fell in love with it. I was watching fights on YouTube all the time. I would go to parties to watch UFC fights.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Fighting

• To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

  

  David Mamet
  • Writing
  • Fighting

• I've been fighting the best guys, so I would like a gimme fight.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Fighting

• Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. So they allowed it to begin.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Character

• There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

  

  Karen Nussbaum
  • Peace
  • Fighting
  • Break

• We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • Great
  • God
  • Believe

• Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • World
  • Children
  • Special

• I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Guy
  • Emotional
  • Athlete

• I don't know if we can play any better than we played tonight. Our guys took hits from them and kept on fighting.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Fighting
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