Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.


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The mystique of this game ... its just been eerie around here all week. When we beat UCLA, you just ...
DIGGER PHELPS
They have a quick team, and our block was almost ineffective, ... It wasn't that we were doing anyth...
TONY PHELPS
This may start to pinch some consumers' wallets.
JACK PHELPS
We only have so many soccer fields and we basically have to cut it off at a certain number because w...
JOHN PHELPS
But those filters are no longer made of cotton. There are over 90 active toxins in cigarette filters...
RALPH PHELPS
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
EDMUND PHELPS
I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a h...
EDMUND PHELPS
It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.
JAYCIE PHELPS
No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity...
EDMUND PHELPS
In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge -...
EDMUND PHELPS
If this happens, this is time for Steve to make that move.
DIGGER PHELPS
Let's get serious. Glen Davis, he's so tough in the paint. They can't handle him.
DIGGER PHELPS
They're going to get eight teams in every year. You just want to get in the hunt. You can be a 5 see...
DIGGER PHELPS
We'd stay at the Hyatt and I'd go up to that church up there across the street from the river. Oh ma...
DIGGER PHELPS
Al McGuire and Digger Phelps. We were the best,
DIGGER PHELPS
The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth ...
EDMUND PHELPS
Their parents still need care and it's important for us to provide that wholesome place for kids to ...
DAVE PHELPS
It's a very good time to be in steel.
DAVE PHELPS
I can't think of one that's on that list that shouldn't be removed. The steel industry has gone thro...
DAVE PHELPS
Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in Ameri...
EDMUND PHELPS
I felt pretty good today, I was trying to keep my consistency. I ran with a couple of guys for awhil...
DANYELLE PHELPS
Before this year I hardly raced for the past couple of years. I'm just trying to get back into it an...
DANYELLE PHELPS
I was aiming for a 5:30 mile, but I'm still happy with my race. I didn't know where the other female...
DANYELLE PHELPS
Something in life inspires me, ... I have a song on my new record, 'Visions of God,' about my kids a...
DAVID PHELPS
I have a wonderful wife,
DAVID PHELPS
I sang there as a child and through high school, ... My goal is to give people hope at any given nig...
DAVID PHELPS
We just got a new contract with Telefonica out of Spain, ... They recognize our success (in the U.S....
DAVID PHELPS
We incorporated in '97 and started working it really heavy in 2000, ... The main reason for our grow...
DAVID PHELPS
Life Is A Church
DAVID PHELPS
When we crunch numbers for 1999, we may see a corresponding increase between sales and piracy in tha...
DAVID PHELPS
Members are very much scrambling to see what's going to happen,
DAVID PHELPS
If I had a conviction strong enough to make a promise to my constituents, I believe I'd stick to it,
DAVID PHELPS
That's what happens where you have a fail-safe district.
DAVID PHELPS
Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance...
EDMUND PHELPS
Everybody was pumped up the first week. We had lots of volunteers in the beginning. Now the sense of...
HAAN PHELPS
This is not a restaurant. They can't come in here and order New Orleans shrimp, because I don't know...
HAAN PHELPS
It's a real energy taker. It's not our job to do this. It's not that we don't want to do it, but it'...
HAAN PHELPS
I don't like to throw food away. It's frustrating when somebody takes three biscuits and only eats t...
HAAN PHELPS
We are providing a sanctuary for God's people. You don't hear sirens and police cars going up and do...
HAAN PHELPS
The act hadn't been enforced and it was kind of a paper tiger. This will just potentially allow any ...
GREGORY PHELPS
Utilities had been trading in sympathy with energy producers all year. Both sectors had a great run ...
GREGORY PHELPS
This nation is poised to trash the first amendment just to stop my preaching. I'm kind of honored.
FRED PHELPS
Housing and commercial real estate have been a very important part of the economy in the Southeast a...
JACK PHELPS
The rapid pace of appreciation and other negatives has made housing become very unaffordable. About ...
JACK PHELPS
The industry has performed very well. We've seen record levels of profitability.
JACK PHELPS
While Florida has been an incredible job engine, wage and income growth has been relatively soft.
JACK PHELPS
We heard a soldier from Ashland, Ky., was killed, so I imagine we'll be back soon.
MARGIE PHELPS
My job in this, the last of the last days, is to show America her abomination. What we're supposed t...
MARGIE PHELPS
I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepre...
EDMUND PHELPS