Ato Boldon Quotes
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
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Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
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I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anything he wanted. But I have learned from my mistakes. I have done everything to change, both on and off the pitch.
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The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.
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If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.
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The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
