He's finally getting his shot to show what he's got.


Eric Wicks

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Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser,
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My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now.
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No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere...
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Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry; For she hes weet her petticoats In...
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We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
We finally got on the front row of an awards show,
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She finally did what she needs to do for us. She finally started what she does for us — penetrate a...
MAXINE JOHNSON
Texas finally got over the hump this year by beating Oklahoma. Texas got what it wanted. They are co...
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Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay...
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He has been injured lately and just getting back into it. This was his first meet (this season) and ...
AARON NIDA
I guess this was his first shot at getting something big,
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That was like my 80th shot. I was just trying to get it in. I tried everything else and finally got ...
ANGIE KUHN
A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled.
“Shoo,” Eric s...
CHARLAINE HARRIS
We finally got our timing down. We finally hit some balls into the gaps, and that is something I've ...
KATE MCCLUSKEY
Eric is getting better every day. He's trying so hard to recover and get better.
BETH EDMUNDSON
They really rallied around Eric and showed leadership and did what they needed to do to keep everyon...
HEATHER CUNNINGHAM
He stayed in there and worked hard and finally got his shot, that's what inspired me. I was impresse...
CARL CRAWFORD
What you show is what you represent
SUNDAY ADELAJA
It was common procedure for Eric Johnson to determine what needed fixing and get it done. That was w...
SUSAN CERBONE
My teammates have confidence in me. I spent Christmas break working on my shot, getting the shot off...
BRENT BENSON
What if it was a stranded motorist getting shot in the chest?
JOHN PERKINS
I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawlin...
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It sounds great, but you can't stop working. You have to keep working. I feel like I haven't been wo...
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What they try and instill in us is to work hard, stay humble and just keep working. That's what we d...
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We weren't thinking about the shutout until the end of the game. We were just trying to work hard. W...
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It's a great stadium, I like the field, I like the field turf. It helps us as far as the field turf ...
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Patterson tries to complete the pass instead of running the ball. So I was depending on him to throw...
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I just had to stop him, We were trying to get someone in the back of the end zone. I tried to run it...
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I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they wer...
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Eric: ''What part do you like best?'' Sookie: ''oh your butt'' Eric: ''My...Bottom?'' Sookie: ''yep
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My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS
I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn...
STEVE PERRY
I think Rex wanted to show off his arm and show that he's still got it.
JUSTIN GAGE
He attacked Eric. Eric had a stab wound through his left arm and was stabbed in the lungs and the he...
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It was good to see Geoffrey finally go home, and he did it for the first time in nearly five years t...
DEAN HAYES
I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
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He's going to be a tremendous college player someday. He's got incredible power and accuracy behind ...
MARK MAZZOLENI
I am so grateful. Eric was very loving, very kind, and what better legacy could Eric have?
MARY MOLNAR
It's taken a long time for this to happen. I finally got confidence in my shot. She's drilled into m...
ASHLEY HILTON
there is a huge difference between giving what you get and getting what you give
REZA FARIVAR
I'm really proud of what everyone is doing. I told them we're finally getting five people on the flo...
BRIAN BLUME
Our kids are finally getting what we are trying to teach them. Hopefully, we will keep this going.
CORY LEWIS
What calmed me down finally was when my girlfriend got pregnant.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE
We had a tough time getting the ball to Bobby (Howard) in the second half, and Eric really stepped u...
BOBBY HOWARD
He got holes in his chest. He was shot all up. He was laying on the ground. He was shot up bad.
KERRY HUMPHREY
We were finally patient on offense. We got good looks and Bridgette Harris did a good job penetratin...
DAN SPRANGER
I think it got us a little tentative, especially Eric. He knew if he picked up his third there that ...
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I had been getting pitched around all night. I finally got one over the plate and I took advantage o...
LOGAN PARKER
The minister had just returned from a swim and was getting inside his home when he was shot.
CHANDRA FERNANDO
We finally got one. Survive and advance, isn't that what they say?
DOUG SCHAUER
We got what we wanted, a contested shot at the end.
DAVE SHEFFIELD
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ...
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We basically said, 'Eric, what do we need to do here?'
JASON KING
If I have got a swing, I have got a shot.
BUBBA WATSON
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to...
NATE DIAZ
He's got a 35-inch vertical leap, so he's able to get over people and get his shot.
JASON TREUTELAAR
You've got to show these folks what your intentions are.
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People always ask me, who is going to replace Eric. There is no one guy who can replace him. He will...
JUSTIN SHERWOOD
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
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ARCHIE MANNING
We're finally getting some restaurants here.
JAN WILSON
I'm thinking about getting shot.
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That was so scary, the last scene Heath and I shot together. We finally get to say to each other wha...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL
We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot...
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We had to be patient because we were getting our chances. Finally we got a couple of breaks, a coupl...
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I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus f...
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Day by day, the wrestlers we have that people don't know, like Eric, keep getting better and when on...
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We shot the show with our video camera and got a good response from the people we showed it to, ... ...
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We finally focused on getting it done and got it done. We hit the ball pretty well and didn't make a...
GILBERT REYES
Finally they are getting it, realizing they have to vote.
CARMEN LOPEZ
He got a call on his cell phone telling him to come outside and when he did, someone shot him.
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Sapp is the last of the great D-linemen. They don't make them like Sapp anymore, ... This should be ...
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He's getting healthy, that's what it is. His attitude has always been great, he's always been a lead...
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Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.
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Salisbury couldn't have shot it any better in the first quarter. But we finally got over that initia...
SCOTT DALTON
We weren't moving and were letting the shot clock go down too low and when we finally got somebody o...
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GLEN WESLEY
We're finally going to get to what I believe the audience wanted the show to be. And everything up t...
TOM WELLING
I thought their shot was pretty well defended. We had a hand in his face, and the kid made a tough s...
DAVE KRAUSS
We played well in the first half. We did a good job of getting the ball into Eric in the post.
JUSTIN SHERWOOD
I saw him. He got shot in the head. [The bullet] stopped in the middle of his head.
ALI ALBADRI
I took a shot and got a 'Fat Man' on him. I took his elbow and spun him.
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I'm glad that Billy and all Vietnam veterans, for that matter, are finally getting this kind of reco...
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You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE
Human is what he decides to be.
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You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
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One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER
The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER
You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON
If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER
The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER
There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER
The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER
We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER
Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER
Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW
The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL
Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH