Ara Parseghian Quotes

The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

Ara Parseghian

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• Trying
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• In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.

  

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• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

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• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

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• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

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• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.

  

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• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

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• In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

  

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• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

  

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• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

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• When it was time for a player to go, he went.

  

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• I'm concerned about the future of football, because we have paid a lot of attention to concussions. We are more aware of concussions. But it's really the repetitive minor injuries, the ones that are asymptomatic that occur on almost every play of the game, the sub-concussive hits: that's the big problem for football.

  

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• I said last week, we've gotta take care of the ball, especially in the first game. Once we lost the lead, we were chasing after that. When something bad happened, we dwelled on that. Not everybody. When that happens, we have to have a short memory and move on.

  

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• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  

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• When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

  

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• You can't think about the past anymore.

  

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• The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game