Bobby Frasor Quotes
We had expectations of making it farther than people thought we ever could have made it. We even said we could win the whole thing -- that's how good we were playing. It just wasn't in the cards.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.
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A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.
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But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
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I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.
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I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; -& they are the life, the soul of reading; - take them out of this book for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them.
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Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
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My mom's chicken, with rice and gravy was my favorite dish as a kid, and it still is now. That's my favorite meal from her or from anybody. It's a family favorite.
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Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.
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We had expectations of making it farther than people thought we ever could have made it. We even said we could win the whole thing -- that's how good we were playing. It just wasn't in the cards.
