Hank Tierney quote: "When I got here (at West Jeff in 2002 following a sterling career at Archbishop Shaw), I heard there was this great athlete at the school, but I couldn't get him to come out."

I never had a player come so far so quickly. I'm not surprised at anything he does.
HANK TIERNEY

I'd like to say we made him into a player. But we didn't. We showed him how to block and who to bloc...
HANK TIERNEY

I understand why he can do both (offense and defense) because he's an amazing athlete. He's agile, w...
HANK TIERNEY

He said he wanted to play defensive end, and he could have. But we were in bad need of a tight end.
HANK TIERNEY

At Shaw, we didn't allow seniors to go out for football. I just felt it wasn't fair to the seniors. ...
HANK TIERNEY

He said he just didn't want to play. He was out there for all the wrong reasons.
HANK TIERNEY

Ultimately all of these decisions should be about what's best for the kids. In trying to reach our k...
HANK TIERNEY

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God...
GENE TIERNEY

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
GENE TIERNEY

I don't have much patience with sick people.
MAURA TIERNEY

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
GENE TIERNEY

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a ...
GENE TIERNEY

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
GENE TIERNEY

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
GENE TIERNEY

This is one of the best offensive teams we've seen, and we didn't hold them down ? we had the ball m...
BILL TIERNEY

What goes on with Princeton lacrosse is as much to the credit of him as to me and the players. He's ...
BILL TIERNEY

He brings the offensive game of lacrosse to a more cerebral level.
BILL TIERNEY

There was a little spark, so hopefully we can carry that into our Ivy League season.
BILL TIERNEY

We knew what happened last year. We lost to this team 17-4. We knew how they could score, and we kne...
BILL TIERNEY

You can imagine him nodding his head as you listen to the tape.
BILL TIERNEY

It's frustrating, because I don't think we played our game in the first quarter. We were tied 1-1 at...
BILL TIERNEY

I think the guys think of him in a very respectful way, as a guy who can very easily lead them. And ...
BILL TIERNEY

We are going to have to play them harder than we ever have before. They have remarkable senior leade...
BILL TIERNEY

Schwartzman was definitely the difference in the first half. But our guy was the difference in the s...
BILL TIERNEY

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
GENE TIERNEY

The tactic of attaching riders to the budget is brilliant.
DANIELLE TIERNEY

They found things in these tapes I had explained in a more benign manner.
BILL TIERNEY

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
GENE TIERNEY

In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
GENE TIERNEY

Organizational improvisation ... Research on jazz musicians shows that people don't just pull stuff ...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
GENE TIERNEY

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
GENE TIERNEY

To look at the photos I saw, it was just extremely unnerving. They looked like pictures from Auschwi...
GAIL TIERNEY

frightening the public with tales of a drug so seductive it instantly turns masses of upstanding cit...
JOHN TIERNEY

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
GENE TIERNEY

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they th...
MAURA TIERNEY

I think it is uncharted waters and we have no idea.
BILL TIERNEY

In the first half we knocked some shots down, but our offense didn't seem to be clicking. We picked ...
TIM TIERNEY

When you blow a nine-point lead like that you definitely lose your momentum. We continued to battle ...
TIM TIERNEY

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
GENE TIERNEY

That was a good goal by our third line. Everyone touched the puck and was in the right place.
BO TIERNEY

The first period, we dominated them, and in the second, it was totally the flip side. I thought we l...
BO TIERNEY

This was an important game for us. These are two big points for us with the schedule we have coming ...
BO TIERNEY

This is a typical turnout for an off-year election. But there is a warm, fuzzy feeling about coming ...
JOHN TIERNEY

A college degree is the cornerstone of the American dream, opening the door to job opportunity and p...
JOHN TIERNEY

Every game is so important, especially in a year like this with so many upsets. You can't lose focus...
BILL TIERNEY

Alex was fabulous. We know we've got a great goalie; Alex gives our defense confidence.
BILL TIERNEY

They're much more powerful shooters. Hofstra was able to score where we didn't.
BILL TIERNEY

We have got to take care of the little things and protect the ball on offense. We lost a huge opport...
BILL TIERNEY

Any one shot on goal can be the difference. We need to concentrate on every opportunity.
BILL TIERNEY

We've got a bunch of athletic, confident kids that play within our system, but we can't sit back any...
BILL TIERNEY

We're much faster, much cleaner off the ground. I can't remember in a long time when the whole [fres...
BILL TIERNEY

Because of my experience being in the inspections and being in the military, I knew the significance...
BILL TIERNEY

Strengthening Chubb's electronic capabilities is a top priority. The introduction of electronic sign...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry bet...
GENE TIERNEY

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
GENE TIERNEY

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
GENE TIERNEY

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
GENE TIERNEY

A column really works best when you really have something to say about something. I haven't had a gr...
JOHN TIERNEY

We hope women 25 and over will be able to use one of our for-fee clinics.
DANIELLE TIERNEY

These funds do not pay for abortion services. We already have federal and state laws which prohibit ...
DANIELLE TIERNEY

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers ju...
GENE TIERNEY

Gold seems to be in a sideways to down formation, and that may have taken a little of the wind out o...
DON TIERNEY

Gold seems to be marking time, waiting for some new developments to take place. It's a little undeci...
DON TIERNEY

It's a Friday. Some people wanted to flatten out their positions and take another look at it Monday,...
DON TIERNEY

Nat Broderick had several good chances to score as did Hardy Merrill. We're a young team, so I was h...
TIM TIERNEY

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed ...
GENE TIERNEY

$10 million dollars being set aside for other health care providers, regardless of their capacity or...
DANIELLE TIERNEY

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my...
GENE TIERNEY

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
GENE TIERNEY

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to...
GENE TIERNEY

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently...
GENE TIERNEY

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be us...
GENE TIERNEY

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and br...
GENE TIERNEY

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small ...
GENE TIERNEY

Traffic complaints are the largest number of complaints to the sheriff's department and probably the...
GAIL TIERNEY

But they apparently took offense to it.
GAIL TIERNEY

We are not investigating it as criminal. (But), I can't speculate as to what might have happened.
GAIL TIERNEY

obvious signs of foul play.
GAIL TIERNEY

in terms of eating more and eating better.
GAIL TIERNEY

There was evidence of damage or missing toenails of these children.
GAIL TIERNEY

The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-scho...
GENE TIERNEY

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

They did anticipate breaching of the levees, that the pumps wouldn't work, ... couldn't get the fede...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

We need a panel of qualified experts that is knowledgeable and objective and has all the investigati...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satis...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

More than 80 percent of the housing was destroyed. It's an island; there was nowhere to go. They did...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

If we weren't prepared, and we didn't do our part, no amount of work by FEMA could overcome the lack...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

We've been on this trajectory for about 15 years. We're seeing increasingly bigger disasters and inc...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

It is extremely important that a commission independent of the executive and legislative branches an...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

There are a lot more people on the ground. Boots on the ground, yes. Effectiveness of what's going o...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

Business is business. If you label it, you limit yourself. Everyone's welcome as long as you treat p...
MICHAEL TIERNEY

Before we give away our land, we need some clarification so we all know exactly what we're buying.
MICHAEL TIERNEY

I waited patiently. I'm a taxpayer. I deserve to speak.
MICHAEL TIERNEY

The disbelief look was a common look that I saw. People just don't think that it can be done.
MIKE TIERNEY

When the settlement came to light, people decided it was absorbable and that the risk was manageable...
REILLY TIERNEY

We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line...
JOHN F. TIERNEY

On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, sk...
JOHN F. TIERNEY

In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide...
JOHN F. TIERNEY

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to th...
HANK AZARIA

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever i...
HANK AARON

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.
HANK GREEN

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines
HANK GREEN

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever presen...
HANK GREEN

Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.
HANK GREEN

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
HANK GREEN

Don't worry about looking cool. Do you because you are awesome.
HANK GREEN

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.
HANK GREEN

Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a mem...
HANK GREEN

The infernal day star is shining its radiation down upon us. I can feel it giving me cancer.
HANK GREEN

You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.
HANK GREEN

I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human char...
HANK GREEN

...the world is complicated and it deserves to be understood complexly.
HANK GREEN

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
HANK WILLIAMS

The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My th...
HANK STRAM

The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.
HANK STRAM

I've lived a charmed life. I married the only girl I ever loved and did the only job I ever love...
HANK STRAM

I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great ...
HANK STRAM

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
HANK STRAM

As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful pe...
HANK STRAM

There are few secrets in football. So execute.
HANK STRAM

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
HANK STRAM

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she ...
HANK SNOW

The fans treated me royally.
HANK SAUER

The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
HANK SAUER

But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
HANK SAUER

After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began thro...
HANK SAUER

I lost the ball in the moon.
HANK SAUER

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea...
HANK KETCHAM

No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.
HANK KETCHAM

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
HANK KETCHAM

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything....
HANK BALLARD

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but i...
HANK AZARIA

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or...
HANK AZARIA

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at...
HANK AZARIA

Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's...
HANK AZARIA

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 1...
HANK AZARIA

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I rem...
HANK AZARIA

Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
HANK AZARIA

I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
HANK AZARIA

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
HANK AZARIA

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
HANK AZARIA

When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
HANK AZARIA

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remem...
HANK AZARIA

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, ...
HANK AZARIA

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example,...
HANK AZARIA

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care ...
HANK AZARIA

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, '...
HANK AZARIA

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a...
HANK AZARIA

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
HANK AZARIA

There's no experience like on-the-job training.
HANK AZARIA

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about...
HANK AARON

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
HANK AARON

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I ge...
HANK AARON

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see thin...
HANK AARON

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
HANK AARON

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and...
HANK AARON

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
HANK AARON

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you ma...
HANK AARON

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder...
HANK AARON

Failure is a part of success.
HANK AARON

You are always a little bit wrong
HANK GREEN

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
HANK AARON

Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary a...
HANK NUWER

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
HANK NUWER

Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college s...
HANK NUWER

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher...
HANK AARON

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf cour...
HANK AARON

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble of...
HANK AARON

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on...
HANK AARON

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
HANK AARON

I don't want them to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember me!
HANK AARON

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if ...
HANK AARON

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the ...
HANK AARON

Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with...
HANK GREEN

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little...
HANK GREEN

I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can ta...
HANK GREEN

College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do...
HANK JOHNSON

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make thi...
HANK HANEY

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting inc...
HANK JOHNSON

You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.
HANK STRAM

You Can See Russia From America!

There are two small Islands in the middle of the Bering ...
HANK BRACKER

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot ...
HANK AZARIA

I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smokin...
HANK SAUER

Historical Santa Clara

Santa Clara is the fifth largest city in Cuba with a population of...
HANK BRACKER

Santiago de Cuba

In 1553, Santiago was first invaded and plundered by the French. They we...
HANK BRACKER

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happ...
HANK AZARIA

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an ...
HANK AZARIA

Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loan...
HANK JOHNSON

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
HANK AARON

Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl ...
HANK JOHNSON

It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
HANK AARON

It's such a complex little show. Watching the second season, the writing deepened, the performance d...
HANK AZARIA

Creatively, this is the best job I've ever had.
HANK AZARIA

Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
HANK AZARIA

When I got here (at West Jeff in 2002 following a sterling career at Archbishop Shaw), I heard there was this great athlete at the school, but I couldn't get him to come out.

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When I got here (at West Jeff in 2002 following a sterling career at Archbishop Shaw), I heard there was this great athlete at the school, but I couldn't get him to come out.

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