Blair Philbrick quote: "We told the kids at half-time that we could do a lot more than we were doing. We had some turnovers and we had some busts on plays that hurt us. But I have to give credit to Memorial. They came out ready to play and they took it to us. They took advantage of some turnovers and made some big plays."

I've seen a lot (of improvement) in equal amounts. From two-a-days to the first game, from the first...
BLAIR PHILBRICK

We felt like we were a much better football team than we were showing. Our kids are battlers and tha...
BLAIR PHILBRICK

I think our biggest priority as a football team is to keep focused, make sure the kids are having fu...
BLAIR PHILBRICK

We need to prepare well, we need to play well. This is a big game for (Memorial). We know that. It's...
BLAIR PHILBRICK

It's been neat to watch that group get better as the season has gone along. Our coaches have done a ...
BLAIR PHILBRICK

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about charac...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and h...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a crea...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of t...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arno...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get throug...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and t...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenag...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysi...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible To...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeate...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology a...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastati...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Whaling was the oil business of its day.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
RODMAN PHILBRICK

Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or a...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he w...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an Eng...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I co...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most o...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all acros...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when yo...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at tha...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a musc...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all th...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the plane...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
RODMAN PHILBRICK

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

Be a doer and not a critic.
TONY BLAIR

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong allian...
TONY BLAIR

Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it fe...
CHERIE BLAIR

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faith...
TONY BLAIR

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.
JOHN BLAIR

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard ...
SELMA BLAIR

It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, an...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't ...
SELMA BLAIR

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
SELMA BLAIR

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism...
JOHN BLAIR

Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that y...
SANDY BLAIR

The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The f...
ROBERT BLAIR

Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
ROBERT BLAIR

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
TONY BLAIR

If you delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, you overcharge the morrow with a burden wh...
HUGH BLAIR

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
TONY BLAIR

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
HUGH BLAIR

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked ...
BONNIE BLAIR

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and ...
HUGH BLAIR

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
HUGH BLAIR

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
HUGH BLAIR

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
HUGH BLAIR

Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.
ROBERT BLAIR

Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: ...
ROBERT BLAIR

Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at...
ROBERT BLAIR

When it draws near to witching time of night.
ROBERT BLAIR

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and...
HUGH BLAIR

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
HUGH BLAIR

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is ...
TOM BLAIR

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with be...
ROBERT BLAIR

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sittin...
LINDA BLAIR

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situat...
JAYSON BLAIR

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
LINDA BLAIR

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.
BONNIE BLAIR

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3,...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. Bu...
TONY BLAIR

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
TONY BLAIR

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets...
TONY BLAIR

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.
BONNIE BLAIR

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
BONNIE BLAIR

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
BONNIE BLAIR

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.
BONNIE BLAIR

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.
BONNIE BLAIR

You have to have the right mind-set.
BONNIE BLAIR

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.
BONNIE BLAIR

I don't fear anything.
BONNIE BLAIR

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
BONNIE BLAIR

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
BONNIE BLAIR

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and f...
BONNIE BLAIR

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long trac...
BONNIE BLAIR

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in t...
BONNIE BLAIR

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've alway...
BONNIE BLAIR

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.
BONNIE BLAIR

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how i...
BONNIE BLAIR

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goa...
BONNIE BLAIR

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've e...
BONNIE BLAIR

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that ...
TONY BLAIR

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Mini...
TONY BLAIR

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm mor...
TONY BLAIR

We know that these gangs are not limited to the city of Toronto; they move about freely, and they ar...
BILL BLAIR

It is absolutely critical to take immediate and significant action to apprehend the people responsib...
BILL BLAIR

By working more co-operatively together, we believe we can mount a more effective response and do an...
BILL BLAIR

No one should doubt my resolve to maintain discipline in this service.
BILL BLAIR

I will not allow such action to take place and have today instructed my unit commanders and supervis...
BILL BLAIR

Stopping motorists or pedestrians in order to provide verbal or written information concerning the c...
BILL BLAIR

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
ROBERT BLAIR

There already has been a drift away from U.S. assets by Arab investors. You may well have a further ...
ANGUS BLAIR

The onus is now on the management of companies to produce good earnings growth to see if they will j...
ANGUS BLAIR

The major determinant is how much does it take from Jordan as opposed to other markets which histori...
ANGUS BLAIR

Well the key basically is the fact that the stock market is in itself cheap. Usually high, by intern...
ANGUS BLAIR

If this deal isn't approved by the U.S., it wouldn't proceed.
ANGUS BLAIR

I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject po...
CHERIE BLAIR

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money....
CHERIE BLAIR

You're chaffing me, aren't you?
ANTHONY BLAIR

Never let them see you're nervous, ... It's not what you're saying that counts, but how you say it.
ANTHONY BLAIR

Nothing much. I can't sing, I can't act, I'm no good with conjuring tricks. You don't need me for yo...
ANTHONY BLAIR

Maxwell, what are you doing for the concert party?
ANTHONY BLAIR

She jolly well does exist. And I'll get you her picture by next Friday!
ANTHONY BLAIR

It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 au...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that m...
TONY BLAIR

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
BONNIE BLAIR

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, n...
TONY BLAIR

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
ROBERT BLAIR

Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule...
CHERIE BLAIR

I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air...
CHERIE BLAIR

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've ma...
SELMA BLAIR

I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short...
CHERIE BLAIR

It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise s...
HUGH BLAIR

The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did...
ROBERT BLAIR

If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the...
CHERIE BLAIR

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
TONY BLAIR

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficu...
TONY BLAIR

The Russian early warning network has suffered false alarms in the recent past. It's deteriorating, ...
BRUCE BLAIR

The female audience may have a greater interest in the Olympics because of the competitors and the t...
BRUCE BLAIR

[He wanted Americans to break free of their isolation and foreigners to have a more realistic view o...
BRUCE BLAIR

to bring the world to America and America to the world in a serious and broad way.
BRUCE BLAIR

I personally think this is just going to be another tax.
BRYAN BLAIR

This convinces me that downtown Macon is on the move.
BRYAN BLAIR

We're off to our second best start in history at 10-1. Our best start ever was 19-0 in 1998-1999. We...
BRYAN BLAIR

Zach is a lot of fun to watch. He genuinely has a good time on the court. He's hit some big shots fo...
BRYAN BLAIR

I think the art ordinance definitely needs to be amended. We don't need to put art in utilitarian fa...
BRIAN BLAIR

If the business district feels [the streetcar is] that important, let the business district step up....
BRIAN BLAIR

If you went to weekends, you wouldn't have to worry about repaying grants, and you could save some o...
BRIAN BLAIR

It needs a tourniquet, and there's no plan to stop the bleeding. If it goes broke, it's going to fal...
BRIAN BLAIR

This is set up perfectly for retail - some day. With that said, we would be doing a service, not a d...
BRIAN BLAIR

With that said, we have some serious infrastructure needs.
BRIAN BLAIR

By no means is this going to be a witch hunt against HARTline, ... I want that known from the beginn...
BRIAN BLAIR

Enough's enough. It's time to let the bad guys know that we mean business,
BRIAN BLAIR

That would appear to be a conflict of interest to me, ... The majority of time you hire outside cons...
BRIAN BLAIR

I've been outright lied to by public works. If they lied to me once, they'll lie to me again.
BRIAN BLAIR

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love ...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

I thought my sons would love this especially, and that's how it came to be; something fun to do and ...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to c...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world ri...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a si...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the ...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

Tonight, Daddy won't read you a story -- you can watch him in a story.
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

It's not a safe bet and it's not the cookie-cutter formula,
BLAIR UNDERWOOD

I thought it would be fun to do something fun at the restaurant to honor the Olympic Games.
BLAIR TAYLOR

When we get back, we'll have some amazing new recipes and wines to talk about.
BLAIR TAYLOR

We have to remember that this panel is empowered to make a decision, but we the people have the powe...
BLAIR TAYLOR

There are thousands of Devin Browns on the streets of Los Angeles ... losing their lives every day.
BLAIR TAYLOR

The light has gone on. They finally realize what we need to do to be a successful team. The win agai...
BLAIR PRUETTE

He can be dominant. Everyone looks at his scoring, but he rebounds and finds the open guy. He's a ma...
BLAIR PRUETTE

It wasn't a shot - no disrespect to [Roberson]. A toss, a throw, a Hail Mary maybe, but you have to ...
BLAIR PRUETTE

He aspires to sign by the end of the summer, but it depends on the situation. We want the best fit f...
BLAIR PRUETTE

Both sides are using lots of rhetoric, and there's a little bit of truth to what each has to say. Bu...
BLAIR LEVIN

Right now, I would never invest in a business model that depended on protection from Net neutrality.
BLAIR LEVIN

It's hard to find someone with a more extensive resume than Dave Dorman in telecom,
BLAIR LEVIN

Lawyers represent their clients but when they become judges ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ or in...
BLAIR LEVIN

We do not think, however, that this means that he would oppose the (AT&T-BellSouth) deal or even nec...
BLAIR LEVIN

It's a game of statistics, but the truth is they are both deeply flawed statistics. It is a dynamic ...
BLAIR LEVIN

It's a game of statistics, but the truth is they are both deeply flawed statistics.
BLAIR LEVIN

The president recognizes the importance of celebrating Jewish-American contributions to the nation.
BLAIR JONES

The president realizes the importance of recognizing American Jewish contributions to this nation.
BLAIR JONES

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americ...
BLAIR JONES

The president travels around the country and the globe to visit with our men and women in uniform, a...
BLAIR JONES

The governor was basically arguing that anything could be denied that could be considered part of an...
BLAIR HORNER

This year was definitely more open than the bad old days, but the door was only open a crack. In the...
BLAIR HORNER

In New York's 'anything goes' system of campaign finance, it fits right in. It shouldn't be allowed....
BLAIR HORNER

It's not illegal, but it's unfair.
BLAIR HORNER

(Pataki does) not view it as a way of discussing the issues of the state. It's about his image. He p...
BLAIR HORNER

I certainly think the timing is more than coincidence, but it really does show how badly the state m...
BLAIR HORNER

Assuming these two members agree with the governor, they should lock in the far more restrictive int...
BLAIR HORNER

This is the theatrical side of the budget process. The substance is still done behind closed doors.
BLAIR HORNER

The door is cracked open, but it's only a crack.
BLAIR HORNER

I think it gives him huge leverage because lawmakers want to have the programs they want funded actu...
BLAIR HORNER

We told the kids at half-time that we could do a lot more than we were doing. We had some turnovers and we had some busts on plays that hurt us. But I have to give credit to Memorial. They came out ready to play and they took it to us. They took advantage of some turnovers and made some big plays.

Blair Philbrick

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