Bob Wickman Quotes

I get asked a lot about being their third choice, but I was the one who chose to make it harder on myself by wanting just a one-year deal. There were some owners with wide eyes when I told them that. I wanted it that way because, if I got hurt, I could just walk off and go home.

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• It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Dumb
  • Unpredictable

• Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Slavery

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Career
  • Course
  • Olympics

• Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Israel
  • Discrimination

• What you see is what you get.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • See
  • Get

• When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Time
  • God
  • Strong

• Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

  

  Cavour
  • Tax
  • Imbeciles

• Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Speak

• An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Pretty
  • Team
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• I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Small

• The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Problems

• It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important

• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Blood
  • Old
  • England

• I am quite a dreamer, and usually when someone tells a story, I tend to get distracted easily.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Dreamer

• I think what really matters is the support you get in football regardless of the uniform you wear. Some girls feel good playing in long shorts, while some of them feel good playing in tighter shorts. I'm not against it. It's obvious that women have to explore that female side of things, and I don't think that's a mistake.

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• The resignation of the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, over the Windrush scandal marks an important moment for independent, investigative journalism, demonstrating how it can hold power to account in order unequivocally to change people's lives for the better.

  

  Katharine Viner
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  • Important
  • Home

• I get asked a lot about being their third choice, but I was the one who chose to make it harder on myself by wanting just a one-year deal. There were some owners with wide eyes when I told them that. I wanted it that way because, if I got hurt, I could just walk off and go home.

  

  Bob Wickman
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