Absolutely. The coaches dream is to have a guy who can run the offense and set up other players.


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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity ...
JOSEPH CONRAD
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It...
JOSEPH CONRAD
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natur...
JOSEPH CONRAD
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible,...
JOSEPH CONRAD
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so...
CONRAD AIKEN
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
JOSEPH CONRAD
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, d...
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for the...
JOSEPH CONRAD
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond fi...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely ...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of si...
JOSEPH CONRAD
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRAD
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, s...
JOSEPH CONRAD
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty...
JOSEPH CONRAD
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRAD
The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- coura...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembod...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, i...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD
As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man root...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intellige...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regard...
JOSEPH CONRAD
When people pose the question, are you “coxom”, Tom Conrad? I like to pose a question back at th...
TOM CONRAD
There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now ...
CONRAD AIKEN
The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage,...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every w...
JOSEPH CONRAD
All a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRAD
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement ...
PETER CONRAD
Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented t...
CONRAD SEWELL