Dirk Nowitzki quote: "I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I'd rather stay in bed, then it's time to go."

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
DIRK NOWITZKI

My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says:...
DIRK NOWITZKI

I don't think the Whataburger would dunk on the In-N-Out Burger, but I never really liked Whatab...
DIRK NOWITZKI

Off the floor, I'm really laid back: like, nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor, I...
DIRK NOWITZKI

We were up three and we should never give up a (3-pointer). That was my fault. We were switching and...
DIRK NOWITZKI

I think that kind of sucks. I really do. If you have the second-best record, you should have the sec...
DIRK NOWITZKI

I want to take that one back at the end of regulation that I missed. I kind of rushed that one when ...
DIRK NOWITZKI

I looked at the clock, I tried to hoist them up there as quick as I can. I don't know if it should h...
DIRK NOWITZKI

I'm very happy that Holger has been released — that's very important to me, especially in regard t...
DIRK NOWITZKI

We weren't good enough in the fourth quarter. You have to play for 48 minutes against a team like Ph...
DIRK NOWITZKI

We never make excuses with injures. We would love to have Josh out there. Same with Devin. (But) we ...
DIRK NOWITZKI

We really made it hard on ourselves in the first half; always trailing, always trailing, and that ta...
DIRK NOWITZKI

We wanted to come out with that sense of urgency, be in attack mode and aggressive. It was good on b...
DIRK NOWITZKI

I took a glance at the clock, and I only saw a couple of seconds and I still had three balls there. ...
DIRK NOWITZKI

There was a lot of hacking going on.
DIRK NOWITZKI

I didn't think 18 was going to stand up. Ray has been doing it, and he won the contest before, so I ...
DIRK NOWITZKI

It was nice to get the win and get the series over with. They are a young, athletic team and it is a...
DIRK NOWITZKI

I lost another good friend and teammate, ... Last year, Steve left and this year it was Mike's turn.
DIRK NOWITZKI

We achieved a small sensation no one believed we could do,
DIRK NOWITZKI

He's one of the best shooters in the league and we found him in transition. He ran right to the line...
DIRK NOWITZKI

Two disappointing losses. We can't really hang our heads. We're right there. We had our chances to b...
DIRK NOWITZKI

It's two disappointing loses but we can't really hang our heads down because we were right there. We...
DIRK NOWITZKI

We will miss Adi a lot with rebounds,
DIRK NOWITZKI

I'm very happy that Holger has been released that's very important to me, especially in regard to...
DIRK NOWITZKI

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute ...
DIRK BENEDICT

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are ge...
DIRK BENEDICT

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it...
DIRK BENEDICT

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
DIRK BOGARDE

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorro...
DIRK BENEDICT

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with inter...
DIRK BENEDICT

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended...
DIRK BENEDICT

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment ce...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the sta...
DIRK BENEDICT

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
DIRK BENEDICT

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don&#...
DIRK BENEDICT

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very norm...
DIRK BENEDICT

But, after all, one cannot, at sixty-two, look back down the corridor of one's life and not have som...
DIRK BOGARDE

If you ask Dr. Howard, he can probably diagnose almost all of our injuries and give you a timetable ...
DIRK KOETTER

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
DIRK BENEDICT

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place ...
DIRK BENEDICT

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the h...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

The men and women who serve this nation and this state are our guardians of peace and they do so at ...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

What we cannot have is grandparents competing with grandchildren for state resources.
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

The camera can photograph thought
DIRK BOGARDE

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do ...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

It's just painful, ... I could run on a treadmill forever, but anything side to side was very painfu...
DIRK JOHNSON

The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, ...
DIRK BOGARDE

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither me...
DIRK BENEDICT

We've never had a quarterback learn our system as fast as he did. That kid was born and bred to be a...
DIRK KOETTER

We stunk. We got off to a horrible start, and the crowd got into it. That game wasn't what ASU footb...
DIRK KOETTER

Our team [on Sunday], we were hurting. The coaches and the players were disappointed, frustrated, th...
DIRK KOETTER

Mike is a little guy, about 285 pounds, and Leo is about 355 pounds. Leo has really improved. He len...
DIRK KOETTER

We've had to do some juggling.
DIRK KOETTER

This is going to take a few days to get over. But it shows our formula works, that we can compete wi...
DIRK KOETTER

When the machine guns opened up, literally like shooting fish in a barrel, the results were particul...
DIRK RYNEVELD

With my introduction to Miss Swanson and macrobiotics, I had become obsessed.
DIRK BENEDICT

I have penciled in a bit of pickup in private consumption because of wage increases.
DIRK SCHUMACHER

I wouldn't refuse stardom, recognition, acclaim. I had no axe to grind either way... I wasn't wishin...
DIRK BENEDICT

The biggest part of the profit cycle now lies behind us. The sort of profit growth we have seen over...
DIRK THIELS

I live very much, try to, in the moment, and find whichever moment I'm in to be the best.
DIRK BENEDICT

I personally don't think anybody should be allowed to write a screenplay UNTIL they are over 40. It ...
DIRK BENEDICT

I consider my life one long string of failures, but all of the failure has made me more grateful to ...
DIRK BENEDICT

It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. A...
DIRK BENEDICT

Meat is bad. Sugar is bad. Chemicals are bad, bad, bad! I wanna be good, good good. So I will just s...
DIRK BENEDICT

Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... re...
DIRK BENEDICT

We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique vo...
DIRK BENEDICT

We're actually a wolf in sheep's clothing,
DIRK JOHNSON

It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.
DIRK BENEDICT

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reb...
DIRK BENEDICT

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors ...
DIRK BENEDICT

The idea of turning into a reptile fascinated me. Other than that, my role was kind of... well, I do...
DIRK BENEDICT

Sam Keller's status is unknown.
DIRK KOETTER

Maybe it's possible in Africa to hold back election results for a couple of weeks, but you cannot do...
DIRK NIEBEL

He looks like he has two capes instead of one. He looks fantastic. Reggie Bush is phenomenal. That g...
DIRK KOETTER

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
DIRK BENEDICT

We'll know we've caught USC when we beat them on the field. But it's still gratifying when a kid kee...
DIRK KOETTER

We continue to hear there's this pent-up demand for tickets and have never been able to test it.
DIRK KATSTRA

We achieved a small sensation no one believed we could do.
DIRK BAUERMANN

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and h...
DIRK BENEDICT

You can never tire, never wilt-and become half-tyrant, half-psychiatrist, half-madman, and half-dead...
DIRK BENEDICT

Unions are asking for more, but we are still a long way from excessive demands. The wage restraint c...
DIRK SCHUMACHER

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how...
DIRK BENEDICT

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed ou...
DIRK BENEDICT

He has long-standing ties in the community, and will have an excellent temperament for the bench, .....
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

For some players, that works great. For some, it's getting our butts kicked (45-7 at USC last year)....
DIRK KOETTER

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
DIRK BENEDICT

The beef, venison and elk vibrations of my first 22 years were still very much controlling the natur...
DIRK BENEDICT

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldn't accept losing that time slot.
DIRK BENEDICT

My son flipped. He loved it. He's 9 now, but he still loves reptiles. To this day, he's so proud tha...
DIRK BENEDICT

Films are about emotions. They are, for the most part and certainly in today's mainstream film world...
DIRK BENEDICT

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventuall...
DIRK BENEDICT

That's Hollywood. Boom! From star to forgotten actor.
DIRK BENEDICT

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests...
DIRK BENEDICT

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
DIRK BENEDICT

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifeti...
DIRK BENEDICT

A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ...
DIRK BENEDICT

Someday I would love to publish the hundreds of letters I've received from people around the world, ...
DIRK BENEDICT

I was the final word on everything. I wrote and directed. Complete cast approval. Every piece of mus...
DIRK BENEDICT

People think surviving cancer is tough, or surviving a divorce, but NOTHING compares with fighting w...
DIRK BENEDICT

I have my routine. I'm running 3 or 4 miles a day.
DIRK BENEDICT

I am very much a person who enjoys mornings as much as evenings.
DIRK BENEDICT

I am not simply an actor, but also have written books and now directed/written a film, I have some p...
DIRK BENEDICT

Cassavetes would have been pleased with me. Truffaut, too, I think.
DIRK BENEDICT

Today I spend more time making music than I do writing.
DIRK BENEDICT

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could jus...
DIRK BENEDICT

I ALWAYS enjoy myself. And if I didn't enjoy myself in this experience, I should be locked away for ...
DIRK BENEDICT

The media destroyed the show with all the hype. All the press worked against us. We didn't become th...
DIRK BENEDICT

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and ...
DIRK BENEDICT

If you have talent as a screenwriter, it will out. Nothing succeeds like perseverance. Never give up...
DIRK BENEDICT

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult,...
DIRK BENEDICT

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent t...
DIRK BENEDICT

That's the network mentality. They're always chasing the polls, trying to second-guess what the peop...
DIRK BENEDICT

Sadly, there are no rules by which an actor learns his craft. Would that it were that easy. I spent ...
DIRK BENEDICT

There isn't a place on Earth with the amount of beautiful ladies as LA. When you're young and starri...
DIRK BENEDICT

My films went to numerous film festivals. I was stunned at how shallow the films were and how much a...
DIRK BENEDICT

I enjoy writing nonfiction the most because one is limited only by one's imagination. Autobiography ...
DIRK BENEDICT

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the en...
DIRK BENEDICT

Hollywood... damn well won't hire a writer over 40 unless he made his mark when he was under 30. Ame...
DIRK BENEDICT

Our defense is much improved and our pitching is much improved. I can't say enough about them. We ar...
DIRK WILLIAMS

We felt that he got of jams the other night and he's our ace, so we were trying to let him get out o...
DIRK WILLIAMS

Put this one on me. Jo-Jo pitched his heart out, but I made two mistakes. I will take the blame for ...
DIRK WILLIAMS

Jo-Jo did a great job of working out of some jams. And I thought Jesse Jordan came in and gave us so...
DIRK WILLIAMS

We never laid down; we never quit. This is the best game we've played in a long time.
DIRK WILLIAMS

We will be able to reduce time to market for new products and services and help customers take up ne...
DIRK WIERZBITZKI

Standardization of handset software platforms across mobile phone manufacturers offers significant o...
DIRK WIERZBITZKI

As an operator, we like openness but we want a certain degree of, I wouldn't like to say control, bu...
DIRK WIERZBITZKI

For this year, the majority of China output will go into traditional [information technology] produc...
DIRK THOMAS

Three years ago, we made a strategic decision to put manufacturing capacity in China and develop the...
DIRK THOMAS

Growth seems to be picking up. We are somewhat more optimistic on European shares.
DIRK THIELS

The fundamentals for European shares are good. A strong economy, good earnings and positive outlooks...
DIRK THIELS

You don't need a strong home base for sales anymore. You just need Germany to be a good base for man...
DIRK SCHUMACHER

It's just a statistical correction after the very strong months before. The long-term upward trend i...
DIRK SCHUMACHER

This is disappointing, as the industrial production figures yesterday were. Still, the business surv...
DIRK SCHUMACHER

It is an unusual situation. Normally, you would expect the government to err on the optimistic side.
DIRK SCHUMACHER

The witnesses will tell you that the vast majority of refugees fled their homes because of the attac...
DIRK RYNEVELD

They feared that the same fate awaited them.
DIRK RYNEVELD

The charges we have brought in this case are so extensive, and the magnitude is so great, that it's ...
DIRK RYNEVELD

With five million unemployed in January, you have to ask whether any far-reaching reforms happened a...
DIRK NIEBEL

Since September 11, 2001, we know we are facing terrorists who are trying to have their way with our...
DIRK NIEBEL

I feel vindicated in my criticism of the reforms.
DIRK NIEBEL

We decided to take an offensive stance relative to our pricing...in order to increase the size of ou...
DIRK MEYER

Our manufacturing strategy execution continues to be flawless. The increased capacity provided by Fa...
DIRK MEYER

I'm honored and excited to assume this new leadership role at AMD. During my time at AMD, we've over...
DIRK MEYER

Phil comes to AMD with a proven track record of success. His numerous patents in system and processo...
DIRK MEYER

Phil has the rare ability to rapidly integrate new technologies into high-value products. We're thri...
DIRK MEYER

Over the last year and a half, we've not only been selling products to Sun, but also working on futu...
DIRK MEYER

Just for one of our kids to get a job and raise a family well ... those are kids we're proudest of.
DIRK MATSON

Success isn't always an immediate change.
DIRK MATSON

Once they get started, they get into it.
DIRK MATSON

If they (staff) don't get good preparation, the kids and the teachers suffer. No one puts as much ti...
DIRK MATSON

Unfortunately, there does seem to be a need for younger kids' treatment. Nobody does anything until ...
DIRK MATSON

Swimming worldwide has changed dramatically and reached new professional levels. My strategy is to b...
DIRK LANGE

We want nothing less than to be the best in the Commonwealth and I believe that can happen.
DIRK LANGE

He's put together a heck of a staff. ... (Petersen) has probably got one of the youngest coaching st...
DIRK KOETTER

This kid is the real deal. He never fumbles, he's got a great attitude and he's fast.
DIRK KOETTER

It's the culmination of many months of chasing these guys around, meeting with families, and selling...
DIRK KOETTER

It's clear to me that he would like to return to wide receiver, and the fact we're losing three seni...
DIRK KOETTER

Andrew's had a tendency in the past to get frustrated with certain players if they don't make plays....
DIRK KOETTER

Through 14 practices, he's probably the MVP of the offense right now. He's a guy we've been waiting ...
DIRK KOETTER

We've reviewed that film. We stunk it up last year.
DIRK KOETTER

They really don't have a weakness.
DIRK KOETTER

Did they come by this way?
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

It is my honor to serve with you, the people of Idaho. This great state, this forty-third star in th...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the hist...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

While the Government has a responsibility to its citizens to be prepared, to take steps to protect t...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE

We're trying to really get this thing to a point where it's about basketball, but it's more than abo...
DIRK KATSTRA

Our challenge, after we raise the money to pay for the arena, is to then fill it up.
DIRK KATSTRA

People that didn't go the first year, all they heard was how much fun our fans had.
DIRK KATSTRA

You always worry about (the future) because there is no security in this business. I'm not saying it...
DIRK JOHNSON

You always worry about something like that. You have to feel fortunate everyday that you can walk in...
DIRK JOHNSON

The kids are getting the message, ... Lewis & Clark Fire Expedition.
DIRK JOHNSON

I felt like I'd lost control of my leg; I didn't have normal function in it.
DIRK JOHNSON

My timing and strength is just going to keep getting better. It's early, ... You lose that timing wi...
DIRK JOHNSON

Mentally, I told myself all along I'd be back for the first game, but you never know how it's going ...
DIRK JOHNSON

In light of what we've seen from others, this is a good thing.
DIRK HOOZEMANS

It was a solid quarter. Operationally, Canadian Natural was very steady and is still going strong.
DIRK HOOZEMANS

It's messy. BP missed in refining and marketing, and that has caused investors to worry about its op...
DIRK HOOZEMANS

The goal is to help customers and partners plan, accelerate and optimize their Linux deployments.
DIRK HOHNDEL

Solidarity will refer the case for review because the arbitration court's decision benefits black pe...
DIRK HERMANN

I hope they don't withdraw the revised offer. If they do, that would mean that they were not sincere...
DIRK HERMANN

We've got good leadership from our seniors this year. I feel bad that we couldn't have got them to t...
DIRK HANSON

This team exceeded my expectations of what I thought we'd be able to do this year. Tonight we didn't...
DIRK HANSON

We knew their post players could hurt us because they're very athletic. I told my girls to get out a...
DIRK HANSON

Newport is an outstanding team. We will probably see them down the road.
DIRK HANSEN

It was a good night, the ball kind of rolled our way tonight. We feel really fortunate to play as we...
DIRK HANSEN

We got in some foul trouble that last game, and when our point guard's not on the floor we struggle....
DIRK HANSEN

They knew there would be pressure. The pressure was building up before the season, and they have wea...
DIRK HANSEN

You can never practice those types of situations like tonight. You can never say we're within three,...
DIRK GOSDA

It's a great rivalry. I can't take anything away from them because we both played tough. We were col...
DIRK GOSDA

If Jacksonville would have won, we would have had to play at West Brunswick (today) to determine who...
DIRK CLINE

It was a classic battle out there today. There were a lot of close battles on every court; lots of l...
DIRK CLINE

I think the greater significance of this is that human travel ... obeys some quite simple, independe...
DIRK BROCKMANN

The aim of our study was to be able to attach a number to human traveling behavior. If you want to u...
DIRK BROCKMANN

If you want to understand how disease spreads, you need to understand how humans travel, because a l...
DIRK BROCKMANN

I knew damn well EPC would have something to say about that.
DIRK BRAAK

He upended that mobile home and started busting it up into giblets and pieces and started to dig hol...
DIRK BRAAK

He jumps around. He'll do a little of this, then do a little of that and he always looks mad, like h...
DIRK BRAAK

The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, ...
DIRK BOGARDE

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