George Elliott Clarke Quotes
Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.
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There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.
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As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.
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You can never have enough talent.
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If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.
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Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.
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Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
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The big talent is persistence.
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.
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As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'
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Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.
