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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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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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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I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.
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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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I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.
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I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
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I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn't working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market... I told my coach, 'I can't play football because I have to make money to help my mom.'
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Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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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.
