Every soccer player thinks of the World Cup or the Olympics. And I'd love to play professionally; it doesn't matter if it's here or in Mexico.
Irving Garcia
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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ALEX MORGAN It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
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RORY MCILROY I didn't get a chance to play in the NHL. This is my Stanley Cup -- the Olympics.
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OLGA KURYLENKO Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there.
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ED ROMERO You want to play in every Test and you want to start in every Test. That's probably the first thing....
MATT GITEAU When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.
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TAYLOR COLE For some of these athletes who haven't been in a World Cup, and won't be in one this winter, this is...
JEFF WINTERSTEEN With this big a lead in the World Cup, it's now possible to focus on the Olympics.
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HAILE GEBRSELASSIE The World Cup is sort of what we do. The Olympics are sort of a bonus.
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DIANA ROSE MORCILLA Reaching our first major finals since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico has to be a realistic target,
AARON HUGHES If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that t...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.
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PETE SAMPRAS Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olymp...
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TIM CONROY Yes, I will play the World Cup (if we qualify).
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DAVE BARRY I know I can play ball. It's just a matter of me getting to do it here or someone else.
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GLENN SMITH There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
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DEYTH BANGER It's fast paced and makes for a good show. It had credibility before the World Cup, but I think with...
MAELLE RICKER If we play like that again we may not even get to the World Cup.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I think it will help my country. Soccer is the big thing in Mexico. This will show the kids in Mexic...
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HOLLY BLACK My goal is to make sure that he stays locked up for the rest of his miserable life -- here or in Mex...
JOSH MCCOWN I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.
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and the cup-bearer pours.
The lover thinks
but the cup-bearer knows:...
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IRVING GARCIA I used to watch my father play with his friends in Mexico. I loved watching him play.
IRVING GARCIA We have had great fun together. But I don't think we played inspired the last 40 minutes. We just pl...
IRVING GARCIA I just felt it in my heart. I knew I was going to score.
IRVING GARCIA Photographing a cake can be art.
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WASHINGTON IRVING One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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WASHINGTON IRVING Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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IRVING THALBERG Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
IRVING THALBERG Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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IRVING STONE The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the fa...
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IRVING STONE I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the reli...
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IRVING PENN Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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IRVING PENN My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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IRVING LAYTON We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, t...
IRVING LAYTON People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
IRVING KIRSCH Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigge...
IRVING KIRSCH Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that ...
IRVING KIRSCH Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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IRVING KIRSCH Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
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IRVING HOWE The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER I don't have a complex mind.
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IRVING HARPER The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER There's no people like show people.
IRVING BERLIN After you get what you want you don't want it.
IRVING BERLIN I got lost but look what I found.
IRVING BERLIN Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
IRVING BERLIN There's no business like show business.
IRVING BERLIN The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
IRVING BABBITT Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
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IRVING BABBITT To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficul...
IRVING BABBITT The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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IRVING BABBITT The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership bec...
IRVING BABBITT Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path ...
IRVING BABBITT We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to ge...
IRVING BABBITT According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxi...
IRVING BABBITT The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plur...
IRVING BABBITT Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
IRVING BABBITT Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absen...
IRVING BABBITT The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once...
IRVING BABBITT Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
IRVING AZOFF Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get re...
IRVING AZOFF I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
IRVING AZOFF The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, ar...
IRVING AZOFF Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
IRVING AZOFF I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
IRVING AZOFF Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly dimini...
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IRVING AZOFF Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly...
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KYRIE IRVING When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drive...
KYRIE IRVING I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&...
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KYRIE IRVING I do have a chef, but I still go out. Sometimes I can still blend in, and sometimes I get a little b...
KYRIE IRVING Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the mornin' -...
IRVING BERLIN Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when...
IRVING LAYTON Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shr...
WASHINGTON IRVING Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
WASHINGTON IRVING Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin'...
IRVING BURNS Half my life is an act of revision.
JOHN IRVING A woman's life is a history of the affections.
WASHINGTON IRVING We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the g...
IRVING LAYTON The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability ...
WASHINGTON IRVING If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on...
IRVING LAYTON Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto...
JOHN IRVING I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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JOHN IRVING What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to...
JOHN IRVING When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk t...
JOHN IRVING Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for ...
JOHN IRVING Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their...
WASHINGTON IRVING You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
JOHN IRVING My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON Idealist: a cynic in the making.
IRVING LAYTON Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...
WASHINGTON IRVING Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with cons...
WASHINGTON IRVING They who drink beer will think beer.
WASHINGTON IRVING A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity t...
WASHINGTON IRVING Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
WASHINGTON IRVING In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
WASHINGTON IRVING An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...
WASHINGTON IRVING When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
IRVING LAYTON The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
IRVING LAYTON There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveli...
WASHINGTON IRVING The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be suppla...
WASHINGTON IRVING The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
WASHINGTON IRVING God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
IRVING LAYTON A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are...
CLIFFORD IRVING Talent is only the starting point.
IRVING BERLIN Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not s...
IRVING KRISTOL There's no business like show business.
IRVING BERLIN The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
WASHINGTON IRVING The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value
IRVING FISHER Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
IRVING BATCHELLER There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lea...
WASHINGTON IRVING Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
WASHINGTON IRVING There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE As I sat on a sunny bank
On Christmas day in the morning
I spied three ships come sailing in.
WASHINGTON IRVING I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing bu...
JOHN IRVING There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING Picture you upon my knee,
Just tea two and two for tea.
IRVING CAESAR The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Pe...
JOHN IRVING A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...
WASHINGTON IRVING His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
WASHINGTON IRVING Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Econo...
IRVING FISHER There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favo...
IRVING BABBITT To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve...
IRVING BABBITT It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sy...
JOHN IRVING Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...
WASHINGTON IRVING Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in m...
JOHN IRVING Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away a...
WASHINGTON IRVING One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and som...
KYRIE IRVING The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increa...
IRVING BABBITT Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one th...
IRVING PENN A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and...
WASHINGTON IRVING All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.
KYRIE IRVING What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
IRVING PENN Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
WASHINGTON IRVING A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener wi...
WASHINGTON IRVING Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto...
JOHN IRVING Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
IRVING STONE This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, ...
JOHN IRVING Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished b...
IRVING BABBITT My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. T...
KYRIE IRVING After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinate...
WASHINGTON IRVING Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. ...
AMY IRVING In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
AMY IRVING Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national l...
AMY IRVING When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way...
AMY IRVING There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passi...
AMY IRVING I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choi...
AMY IRVING I'm not very good when people work out of friction... tension. Shouters. Even it's not at me, but ju...
AMY IRVING I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Franc...
AMY IRVING Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft...
AMY IRVING There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to beco...
IRVING KIRSCH I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome...
IRVING KIRSCH With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. ...
JOHN IRVING