Squad Quotes

• Some advice I would give myself from the Spirit Squad years - try and get taller.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Advice
  • Squad

• Dressing up and doing photo shoots was a side of the industry I really didn't think I would like. But now I've got a glam squad; I love trying on new outfits and experimenting with different looks.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• 'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Squad

• 'To hell with the handkerchief,' said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

  

  James Thurber
  • Proud
  • Smile
  • Squad

• I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Up
  • Light
  • Car

• Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

  

  Matt Hasselbeck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Practice

• I'm always trying to come down with a win. That's what matters to me and my squad.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Squad

• I?m just trying to do a little more talking to the guys and assuring them I am with them regardless, mistakes or no mistakes. I feel like it is important to let your teammates know that they can make mistakes, because you are definitely gonna make them. We feel like we can make mistakes and live with them if they are aggressive mistakes. I just talk to my squad as much as I can and just try to be there for them because that is what they do for me.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Important
  • Live
  • Trying

• I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Great
  • Moment
  • Cup

• Many players in the French squad play in the Premier League or have played in the Premier League, so I knew about the level.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Squad

• A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word I when you're in a group makes things complicated.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Player
  • Squad

• 'Brutality!' cried Tristam. The class was at last interested. 'Beatings-up. Secret police. Torture in brightly lighted cellars. Condemnation without trial. Finger-nails pulled out with pincers. The rack. The cold-water treatment. The gouging out of eyes. The firing squad in the cold dawn. And all this because of disappointment. The Interphase.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Squad

• Not gonna lie - having a personal glam squad is pretty amazing.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Pretty
  • Amazing
  • Squad

• As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • She
  • Laughter
  • Squad

• We're at the stage where some of our more experienced players are injured, some have already been rested, so it's a great opportunity to bring a bit of youth and enthusiasm into the squad.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Stage

• I knew as far back as 2001 that I would write a book called 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' though I had no idea what kind of book it would be.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Book
  • Squad

• I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

  

  Jonny Wilkinson
  • People
  • World
  • Success

• At this stage, there is no reason why he would not be selected on the spring tour. Like every player in the squad, his performance during the winter season will be reviewed and evaluated but he is the current Australian captain and the right man to lead the team through this next period of time.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Time
  • Why
  • Team

• I've watched the current squad three or four times and I think that survival will be the first aim, but Keegan has got this way about him.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Survival
  • Watched
  • Keegan

• They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • Car
  • Missing
  • Squad

• Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • May
  • Squad

• I feel the same magic about 'Angel Falls' that I did with 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mod Squad.'

  

  Peggy Lipton
  • Magic
  • Angel
  • Twin

• Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Idea

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