Esko was really tough. They really ran the ball so well. I was afraid for a while they'd worn our players out... We had to hang on there in the last 18 minutes.
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Related I was really disappointed with our first 20 minutes but we competed well after that. You are in for ... CRAIG BELLAMY For our confidence, this was a big win. We had a good day on offense. We drove the ball, we ran the ... MAURICE WILLIAMS The point-spread, you know, I don't enjoy that, but I thought our kids played really well. In that l... DAN HOOKS It was a tough game. I think they (Forks players) played really tough and they wanted to win. Our gu... ERIK WIKER It was tough game for us. We had to eke out a win. They played us really well. DAVID BLOUIN They were really athletic. It was tough to move the ball on them. We really played well in the first... DUSTIN BAINTER Last time out we really had a bad stretch in the first half to start the game. They really shot the ... JEFF NEUBAUER We know this will be a tough game. They are talented and they really get out and pressure the ball. ... JASON WILLIAMS They never quit and we never quit, but the difference was they ran out of gas in the last four minut... WALLY SANCHEZ We had very high winds and rain. There was lightning in the area. The ref was thinking about stoppin... DON STROCK They had their whole package against us. They ran the ball well; they threw the ball well; they got ... FRANK SOLICH [We] did a heck of a job taking care of the ball. I think Campbell was surprised that we handled it ... MIKE ALLISON We knew we had to play really well defensively, because Germany has a few very talented players. I w... EMMA LAAKSONEN Our team played great tonight and we really played strong in the first half. Everybody was just out ... DAVEY BECK So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff ou... BILL JOY I thought we ran really well. To a runner, we ran faster than last week and got out a lot better. AL KNUTSON Our defense in the second half was great. We really came to play on the defensive end tonight and I ... CORY GREEN I was really impressed with our first period. The first team played real well today. We moved the ba... DON CHANDLER This game means a lot to our whole team, specifically our defense, because we feel they took advanta... ERIC HENDERSON I didn't come out and roll from job to job - my first year was really tough. I had to work as a ... CUSH JUMBO We played some really good football in the first half. For the last 20 minutes, it was like the sieg... DAVE SMITH We ran better than we did last week in the City Meet, but it was a tough course, so you couldn't see... LEE SHAW We moved the ball extremely well on offense, but I think it was our defense that really helped us. T... GEORGE DRAWHORN It was a tough game against a tough team. They ran the ball down our throat and somehow we found a w... BOBBY JOHNSON The girls worked hard. We ran our offense really well and had good shots, but the ones in the final ... BOB ATKINSON It was really tough out there. I felt I played well enough, but it was so windy and the course is pl... CATRIONA MATTHEW Defensively our coaches had an outstanding plan. They had the kids in position all night long and ou... BOB THAYER I was really happy with our effort. We forced some turnovers, but we didn't shoot the ball well enou... JEFF TANK That's a good ball team we just beat. I scouted them last week when they lost to Alabama's No. 1 tea... JEFF HEATH Overall, we ran really well. For our first meet of the season, the second week of September, we look... ERIC HUNT St. Mary's was in our region (the Desert Valley Region) last year. We had some close ones but they c... EMMA MORRISON It was pretty tough. I was expecting a tough game because I knew they had some returning seniors tha... LAUREL SCHULTHEIS We ran really well at Phoenix last year. That should be a good spot for our team. CARL EDWARDS We had great energy tonight, on both ends. We worked really, really hard to limit them to one shot a... TONY PITTMAN They (ABC) actually ran a clip for one of the songs and that went really well because they broadcast... JEFF FATT I was really surprised. There were a lot of tough competitors in our heat. I know most of them reall... GERARD DONLEVY It was really well contested and we were pleased we got our flow a lot more. And we were craftier in... RUTH AITKEN Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best ... DANIELA HANTUCHOVA Well, Rhoda was, I think, the last actress that we saw. There had been so many wonderful actresses w... MARY TYLER MOORE In the spring, we focused a lot on being really tough and getting in on tackles and being a really s... DANA HALL It was kind of tough. We had a lot of good players, but we really didn't move the ball. People said ... JUSTIN BOCOT It was a tough loss. We didn't play real well in the second half. We certainly had it going in the f... JEFF APPLEMAN It was a good day for our entire program. Our girls ran really well collectively. They have battled ... CHAD WETZEL We hit the ball really well. We ran the bases well. Everything we did clicked, ROBERT WALLER It was a war out there. There were two very physical teams just going at it and really putting every... CAROL SIMON It's no secret we haven't shot the ball well this year and we came out for 30 minutes and shot the b... CHARLEY TOOMEY We were up to our eyeballs in competition, ... They actually improved over the last time they ran an... DAN GREEN It was tough for the coaches to be attentive, as well as the players. We knew there was the distract... GARY JOE KINNE Our intensity was lacking the last couple of games. At practice we talked about really focusing, mov... KARIN LEARY I thought the guys ran really well considering it was pouring rain and there was a 30 mph wind. AL KNUTSON This was a tough loss. We came out strong in the first game and then had a few serving and passing e... DEZARAE JOHNSON It was our worst shooting night of the season, and Kelso played great. They shot the ball really wel... DAVID LONG We had had so many problems in our area after Hurricane Ivan. It really helped lift our spirits. I w... JOE GILCHRIST They are two very young players who had incredible starts to their season. They've really lit it up.... KEVIN LOWE Our defense was just on the field too long. After a while, you can get worn down, and maybe we did. ... BOBBY HUMPHRIES I went to see some doctors one year, had a contact in one eye for a while. I was seeing the ball wel... MIKE LOWELL The win was really important for us. Coming off a tough season last year, one of the biggest things ... LUKE BEAL (Snowflake) hit the ball really well. They were able to put the ball in play, and we threw a couple ... RAMON MORALES I thought Game 1, both teams were neck-and-neck, and then they got a nice run, and from that point o... ALAN KNIPE That was a great defensive effort, because Wyoming is a very good team. They set so many screens and... DON FLANAGAN The fourth quarter, we were really strong and pulled out our delay game. We took care of the ball, b... COREY JENKINS The situation here was really unorganized and players would show up if they wanted to while others w... AMBER KLAGES Clarence Ray Allen didn't die for 18 minutes after they administered the drugs. If you hang somebody... BEN WESTON We hit the ball hard and hit the ball low. And we ran the bases extremely well. That's a big part of... DON LEITZEL It was a very good game for our program. To play a team like that who has only one loss on the year ... DALE NEIBAUER We ran really well, ... We ... LARRY BELL I try not to stick out here. I just try to hang in. Last year was more just a prep. Now it really st... COLBY RASMUS We controlled the first 10 minutes. Mike had three really good chances. The rest of the game was rea... ANDY GATES We shot well tonight. We just had a couple of key turnovers in the last couple of minutes that reall... ROCKY PETERSON It was really tough tonight, they went on runs, we went on runs and there were a lot of fouls, it wa... EMILY CUMMINGS Missing our point guard and our shooting guard really put us behind to start out. If I had known we'... GARRY COOPER They really stepped up and ran very, very well for us. That was a big lift. LOU FIORILLO All the girls on this team have really grown this season. They all had to learn to step up while Lis... KRISTEN PETERSON I think what happened there was the kids came out fired up. That set the tone right there. They had ... TERRY GOUGH In general, I think our girls swam well. Some of the freshman girls got to swim, and I hadn't really... JAIME RUSZALA It was tough out there. It was blowing really good. The greens were really firm. ROD BUTLER We ran the ball really well. We had a lot of yardage today, but we just couldn't put it into the end... DAVID HILTON We guarded pretty well except for the last five minutes of the first half. (Eastern) really went aft... BRIAN MCDERMOTT The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we we... CINDY ALLISON It was a typical first game of the season, ... Everyone knows we typically start the season slow as ... JERRY SMITH I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went. ENOS SLAUGHTER It was a struggle for both teams, and a little tighter than I was hoping on. Ithaca played well agai... JIM MURPHY After they got past the shock part of the press, then they started breaking it pretty easily. So we ... KEITH ANDREWS I was pleased for our players, we really controlled the tempo of the game. DAVE KETTERMAN I think they're pretty well in step with other counties. The state just rolled out its voter educati... DOUG HILL Thank goodness in certainly the last 4 minutes they didn't get anything. It was a fighting, spirited... STEVE ADLARD While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that... ANDY KAUFMAN For the bench to play the way they did was humungous. We got 19 points from our bench tonight. In th... DALE PRIOR I thought I was better than him last year, really. The players on the team thought so too, but he wa... REGGIE SHEFFIELD Our ball movement was pretty good. We've been swinging the ball really well, always looking for the ... JACK SCALCUCCI We had a tough time getting the ball to Bobby (Howard) in the second half, and Eric really stepped u... BOBBY HOWARD It was really exciting. I had a lot of fun. Last week was tough, I really wanted to win that first g... CARA HENDRY We're really happy with our relays, they all ran really well. CORTNEY LAMB I was really glad to see Kristen out there. Other than one at bat, she was on the ball the whole tim... BRIAN KOLZE We don't always have the numbers we would like to see. Last year was a really rough year for us beca... BILL KNICKERBOCKER It was sweet revenge. Chuck ran him down, but he almost ran out of gas. FRANK MICHALOWSKI The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out... DYLAN SMITH This one hurts, but they all hurt. I thought we really had a chance to win this one tonight. Our eff... DEE ROMINE I thought we played really well and stronger as the game went on. I was happy with the depth we show... WAYNE WILSON I knew I had four fouls, but I knew we had to get the ball somehow. I just went up there and smacked... AMANDA RADOVICH
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My job is pretty easy. I just turn them loose on the floor and let them play. CHUCK BENDA This gave us an opportunity to get all our players some valuable floor time. We shot very well, and ... CHUCK BENDA I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid predictio... JULIEN BENDA The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-lab... JULIEN BENDA Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philo... JULIEN BENDA And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. JULIEN BENDA Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. CHUCK CLOSE Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. CHUCK BERRY I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad peop... CHUCK LORRE If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, ... CHUCK YEAGER You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. CHUCK PALAHNIUK More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' '... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. CHUCK PALAHNIUK My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't f... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens jus... CHUCK PALAHNIUK My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their w... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - pai... CHUCK PALAHNIUK People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scare... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a... CHUCK HAGEL The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shal... CHUCK NORRIS Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. CHUCK JONES Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ... CHUCK D Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all fall... CHUCK HAGEL The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, beca... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres. CHUCK INGLISH I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny. CHUCK JONES What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome w... CHUCK NORRIS I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, ... CHUCK KLEIN If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or aware... CHUCK PALAHNIUK A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure ... CHUCK NORRIS I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapo... CHUCK SCHUMER California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the c... CHUCK EDDY Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance... CHUCK TODD I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected. CHUCK FLEISCHMANN Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe... CHUCK D Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. CHUCK NORRIS Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative... CHUCK NORRIS I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt ... CHUCK FEENEY My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was n... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable.... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basi... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book wr... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like b... CHUCK BARRIS Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We can't deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And ... CHUCK NORRIS Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess... CHUCK D In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mista... CHUCK SCHUMER Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a... CHUCK MANGIONE You decide your own level of involvement. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has utte... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? CHUCK PALAHNIUK The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in a... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. CHUCK PALAHNIUK What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of yo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would al... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time. CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't. CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct... CHUCK PALAHNIUK A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm. CHUCK PALAHNIUK What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. CHUCK PALAHNIUK When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? CHUCK PALAHNIUK I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. CHUCK PALAHNIUK What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. CHUCK PALAHNIUK A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b... CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th... CHUCK DALY Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. CHUCK KNOX Playing safe is only playing. CHUCK OLSON Practice without improvement is meaningless. CHUCK KNOX It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. CHUCK HILLIS Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart. CHUCK D I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. CHUCK PALAHNIUK On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stair... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and ... CHUCK COLSON Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and bi... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the w... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teet... CHUCK PALAHNIUK That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways CHUCK PALAHNIUK College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink CHUCK PALAHNIUK “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? CHUCK PALAHNIUK On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. CHUCK PALAHNIUK And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Only after disaster can we be ressurected. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumpti... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sud... CHUCK PALAHNIUK People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. CHUCK PALAHNIUK While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes availa... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe we should always assume the worst. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive.... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. An... CHUCK TANNER The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The first step to eternal life, is you have to die. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? CHUCK PALAHNIUK If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... CHUCK PALAHNIUK When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. CHUCK PALAHNIUK When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd... CHUCK PALAHNIUK [T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth... CHUCK SIGARS Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. CHUCK SIGARS You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. CHUCK PALAHNIUK On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. CHUCK PALAHNIUK As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my mil... CHUCK NORRIS I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home jo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about... CHUCK BERRY Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our po... CHUCK HAGEL I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my ... CHUCK YEAGER A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it... CHUCK CLOSE Commonly, athletes will bolster their dietary intake with everyday vitamins such as magnesium and ir... CHUCK NORRIS Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew... CHUCK BERRY I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. CHUCK CLOSE Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, ... CHUCK JONES I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everyth... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is ou... CHUCK PALAHNIUK My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by thei... CHUCK NORRIS We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence. CHUCK FLEISCHMANN What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way ... CHUCK GRASSLEY Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity o... CHUCK TODD I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unco... CHUCK PALAHNIUK When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume signific... CHUCK NORRIS To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you... CHUCK NORRIS If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget tho... CHUCK NORRIS Good things happen to those who hustle. CHUCK NOLL In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. CHUCK YEAGER There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up... CHUCK SCHUMER Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibili... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I co... CHUCK BROWN You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the ... CHUCK YEAGER Don't let the same dog bite you twice. CHUCK BERRY I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up. CHUCK BERRY We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax... CHUCK PALAHNIUK What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like gr... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the ... CHUCK NORRIS Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a h... CHUCK NORRIS The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never... CHUCK NOLL My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issu... CHUCK PALAHNIUK In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagn... CHUCK PALAHNIUK That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened... CHUCK BERRY In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying th... CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews. CHUCK BERRY Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. ... CHUCK BERRY Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really we... CHUCK PALAHNIUK One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed ... CHUCK ZITO It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in th... CHUCK NORRIS Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important. CHUCK CLOSE In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tai... CHUCK NORRIS I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about tha... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart... CHUCK PALAHNIUK