Brad Roberts Quotes
It was a great year to go out on. I thought I played up to my potential, that I might not have done my previous two years. I was very happy with my play. I felt that I gave the team a chance to win every time we played.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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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 probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.
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I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
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Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
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I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.
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I'm not very happy idle.
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I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.
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On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.
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There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.
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You want to understand why a bond manager makes certain strategic decisions.
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What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
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It was a great year to go out on. I thought I played up to my potential, that I might not have done my previous two years. I was very happy with my play. I felt that I gave the team a chance to win every time we played.
