Nigel Pearson Quotes
The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
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I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.
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A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
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As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
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A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.
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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.
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As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.
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The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
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The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.
