I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and let my bod... IAN THORPE I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and t... JEREMY SISTO I didn't know what was going through my mind. GABRIELA SABATINI It was so bang-bang, I had no idea what happened or what caused the ball to be loose, ... All I knew... DAVE ROBERTS I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I ... DAVE MUSTAINE When the sweater was going up, there were a lot of things going through my mind. PAUL COFFEY What was going through my mind was that we're going to win. There wasn't a doubt in my mind that we ... GREG MCMATH I had an obligation, in my opinion, to my investors, and it didn't have anything to do with what was... DAN BAILEY I didn't know what he was going through on the sideline. I didn't want to know what he was going thr... JOE TERESHINSKI Every year, we go through challenges. With my dad, it was what I was going through. As a professiona... BERNIE WILLIAMS The thing about the album ‘Lost Highway’, it’s honest. It’s about a lot of things I was goin... RICHIE SAMBORA I went to bed the first night knowing I had to win or else that was it. And I also knew it was again... DEWITT DRISCOLL I was at my locker in West Palm pretty upset with the way things were going, and in walked Paul Snyd... DALE MURPHY I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school ... ROGER STONE She sang beautifully. She looked lovely. She was wearing a wig, of course. She had been through chem... KATHIE LEE GIFFORD My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha... ALAN C. GREENBERG I remember my first road win was pretty big and I got a lot of confidence from that. I think you dra... BRIAN ELLIOTT I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get ou... JOHN MAYER I lost my best friend two years ago and I was going through a lot of grief, so it was a huge struggl... JENNIFER MYERS Highgate. I was not dispirited now. I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after ... CHARLES DICKENS Before I went through that situation, and during the time I was in there, I know there were people w... GLORIA TREVI I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always ha... ADRIAN PETERSON I had the video camera in my hand and I was driving in my car. I was playing around with the camera ... KRIS FROSTAD I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no on... RACHEL PLATTEN Being blamed of using steroids? My numbers were the same before and after. It didn't stay in my mind... JUAN RINCON I was going through a lot of things and when I found out that I was pregnant that added more grief, ... STEPHANIE PETERSON I was going through a lot of things, and when I found out that I was pregnant that added more grief,... STEPHANIE PETERSON I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind. GABRIELA SABATINI And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, a... ELVIS STOJKO When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what... WALTER DEAN MYERS I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec... RANDY HARRISON I was nervous at first, ... But the snapper and the holder had been good all night and nobody had be... BRAD COX Not on my watch are we going to have what John Lindsay had when he was mayor. BARRY FEINSTEIN I was going to give them a first, ... Obviously, I didn't start at a first, but I was going to give ... RON WOLF I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d... ROBERT DAVID HALL It gave me an opportunity to see what was going on with recruiting. Once he came through and let eve... CASAAN BREEDEN "People betrayed me and I had a really hard time. That, along with what I'd been through with my fam... CHRISTINA AGUILERA I was going crazy here at home wondering what was going on with my son. JENNIE KELM To be honest when I was playing at the end I just fell out of love with the game and I was going thr... KENNY DALGLISH What makes me angry, this whole season I haven't been playing the way I should be playing in terms o... JASON FONTENET I was a real tomboy for most of my life. Then I went through a really girlie period, then through a ... EVAN RACHEL WOOD When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of like... MICK MARS It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind a... BARRY CRYER I?m going to hang them on my wall beside my guitar. I've been saved and been through a lot but this ... JADE STONE I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going thr... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying t... DOUGLAS ADAMS Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into ... KEITH SWEAT We didn't know what he was going through because none of us had been through it before. What he went... LINC DARNER Oh yeah, that was on my mind. I was thinking how it would have been if I were playing for the Red So... BERNIE WILLIAMS In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I w... RAEKWON Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in r... JIMMY PAGE I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was goi... ROLAND JOFFE She has always been my role model in gymnastics, and every time at practice when she was doing some ... HANNAH NOEL Just to see Chris fight through the years with what was going on ... it was just something I thought... CHADD LITTLE I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h... JAMES ROUSE It kind of goes through spurts. I remember when it was going on when I was that age, and then it was... JEFF HILL I didn't know what was going on. That's when I realized that everything had gone through the roof. I... ADAM DURITZ I lived here until I was 13, and since my dad's a member, I know a lot of them. It's nice going thro... SAMANTHA ALDOM I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the poi... JAKE ROBERTS I know what he's going through. His isn't as bad as mine. His slipped out and popped back in. My sho... LENNY WALLS When I was little, I was out riding my brand-new blue bicycle when I decided to see how far I could ... CHICA UMINO Coach [John Fox] let me know that Stephen was down and it was going to be on my shoulders, me and Ro... DESHAUN FOSTER I've always been a fan of Johnny Cash. I grew up in the country picking cotton. ... All we had was a... GARY LOPEZ What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, a... TOM GOLISANO I was in a lot of pain going through the competition, so it wasn't the most enjoyable to compete in.... COURTNEY KUPETS It was a great show. But, at the same time, there was a lot of stuff going on in my life and I wasn'... ANDY BELL I like how the players come through and acknowledge us. They love it. (Friday), it seemed like the i... DAVE LEONARD I felt Mr. Smith's pop bottle in my hand, and for a second I couldn't remember why I would be carryi... ALLY CARTER I don't know if it deflected or what. It was going straight at my blocker; I kind of jumped up to gr... JOHN GRAHAME I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. H... CHRISTINA AGUILERA When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say ... ALFIE ALLEN My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lo... USHER I was lying next to my poorly son in hospital when he phoned and told me what had been going on. I d... CAROLINE WAUGH I had asked my body to go through an awful lot, and it had come through with flying colors, and I di... ANN JILLIAN When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who wou... JOHN FOGERTY I was going after every loose ball and rebound. That was the emphasis on my mind tonight, and that s... JANEVIA TAYLOR I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela... EVAN GLODELL It showed me what they think of me and how they think I can turn the program around. It meant a lot ... ANDREW DIDONATO Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs. BRYAN ADAMS Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck ... DAVID CASSIDY She'd had a similar accident but survived. She told me that as she was crashing she felt no fear or ... CAROL BARNES I think the hurricane kind of passed through there and knocked the power out, but I wouldn't have go... ANDY ESTEN I looked through the glass from my adjacent studio and John [Peel] was just weeping. Silently. NICKY CAMPBELL I thought I was trying to do my best and what he wanted me to do, ... I was getting the grasp of it.... JASON KIDD That was one other time when my whole body reacted to the fear and went out of my own control. My ne... DIET EMAN I would remember them forever–their names, my reasons, the way their bodies slumped in death and t... LINSEY MILLER Since she was a college gymnast and because she's been through college gymnastics, she knows a lot a... KATIE HARDMAN One of the first things I remember was going ramp digging with my dad and uncle. JIM MEADOWS The car was consistent and the balance was set up. But I had a bad radio and had no clue what was go... SCOTT DIXON These two doctors have this down to a science. The video and what they talked about each week was ex... BARBARA WARREN It was an unbelievable win. This shows a lot of character with the kids going on the road and playin... LOU PICCOLA I didn't really set my mind as to what I was going to do. I just kind of let it happen when I was go... PETR SYKORA I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was... LAMAR ODOM All what stuck in my mind was what the judge had said, and that was during the assault there must ha... STEPHEN RICHARDS Me not being able to help my teammates was probably the No. 1 thing that was going through my mind (... ANTONIO GATES 'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go... LAURA BELL BUNDY Today was great. I felt really good and was proud of my teammates. They really pulled through today.... MAUNYA JACOBS I've been through a lot in my career, ... I've seen a lot of things happen in games during the seaso... GUS FREROTTE I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
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JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete... JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ... JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis... JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go... JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ... JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ... JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God? JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e... JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing... JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t... JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther... JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we... JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re... JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ... JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f... JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage. JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment. JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B... JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life. JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li... JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al... JOHN WAYNE