I wasn't going to die wondering why we didn't win, like we didn't win (when competing with) Brisbane or Melbourne. We needed to get our fair share of votes out of Africa.
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Related I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something... WOW As ugly as we played, to get out of here with a win, I'll take it. We certainly didn't play like [we... AMY SILVERMAN We talked about packing up. We needed to go out and find a way to win or we were going to be cleanin... CLINTON PORTIS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES I think we'll be going to Melbourne with the confidence and the belief that we can actually win it, LINFORD CHRISTIE We needed a big win to get our confidence up. KATIE DALY We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN When we have to win, somehow we do. When we played Newcastle away and Melbourne away, we had to win ... TOM WILLIS Last week, we had to hit the ball to win a ball game but today I felt like we hit the ball with cons... JAN DAVIS What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER We battled back. It was our game to win or lose in the end, we just didn't execute when we needed to... ERIC SPIVEY it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt MARTIN VAN BUREN In the second half, we came out and did what we needed to do. I was pleased with our defense, our fr... BROCK BLASSINGAME I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends. GWEN STEFANI I'm not going to come out and say how many I think we can win, but I expect us to win, and I want to... ROMEO CRENNEL They were excited to come out and they played really hard. We needed this win to get our spirit up. ... AMBER SMITH I'm optimistic. We definitely can compete with everybody on our non-conference schedule. The confere... JASON SWEARINGEN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL We felt we needed to come back home and get this win. It was a much-needed win after last night. We ... EDDIE JONES I knew we were going to win something. We were either going to win a hell of a big lesson or win a b... JOHN KENNADAY That was a match we needed to win, going head-to-head with Bald Eagle. Garrett came out and wrestled... LARRY WALKER If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going... ORISON SWETT MARDEN We needed to win this game. This will help with the playoff seed we get. PHIL SHAR That's something we talked about all week. It's a big win for us and a big accomplishment, but now w... LUCIOUS JORDAN We always play each other tight and I told the girls that we needed to come out with the win. We did... ANDY OSBORN We needed it; we needed a win going into the weekend. JEFF STEELE When we got here, we were expecting to win and we wanted to win. Right now, we are just trying not t... EDGAR GONZALEZ I thought we played well enough to win. We had many quality at-bats, but we needed that one hit to g... AL FRICKE You either have the feeling or you don’t. DANIEL HANDLER With our conference up for grabs, a win like this is just what we needed. JUSTIN LEHR I thought we played hard, and we did what we needed to do to get the win. ANDRE BOUTTE This win means a lot. We were tired of losing to them. We needed to win. BARRY WILSON When you start out strong, like we have, you become the hunted instead of the hunter. So, every game... CORI BOSTON I thought we played well. We did what we needed to do to win. At times it wasn't necessarily pretty,... ANDY JADOS why should we feel ashamed of what has happend ,,,, we didnt ask for it ,,, are abuser forced it upo... GRACE We knew we just needed one win to get our confidence back and we've just rolled from there. AARON WILSON We definitely learned a lot. I think we needed a game like this. We are very happy with the win and ... LELANI GORDON We did what we needed to do to win. When we win the game, I'll take it, no matter what happens. BRIAN VOELKER If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo... DONALD MILLER We haven't been finding a way to win ugly games but we found a way to get this win and we really nee... CORLISS WILLIAMSON The main thing is that we got another win. It was kind of a rush to get my first hat trick. There we... MICHAEL RYDER We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ... WENDY MASS The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN It was a team effort, and we got the win we needed at home. We knew they wanted to get one of two he... JOSH HARDING There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck. HUBERT SELBY JR. Berkeley played well. We didn't hit our shots when we needed to, and Berkeley hustled. They deserved... YVONNE ANDERTON We all fight for one reason, to win. We share the same purpose and that's why we are brothers. DAVEY I think we have better products. We have to get them out there to our customers when we say we will ... ED ZANDER The sun is going to shine whether we win or lose, but we're out here to win. DARREN BURNS We needed everything to go perfectly, and it looked like things were going to head that way, ... I j... JOSH WISE I think we were just going in and executing our game plan, we're going to leave it on the floor. I d... JENNY DEMUTH We are very very fortunate to get out of here with a win. JOSH HOOD I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th... DALEEN IRSHAID Stay poised. We knew they were going to get up. We just figured if we stick together, keep running o... ALANDO TUCKER We want to win our last three games, big-time. We need to win those three. In the Big Ten Tournament... ADRIENNE SQUIRE You get out what you put in. No kid goes out there to lose. They are going to get pushed this week t... BRYAN HAZARD And that's why we don't have a chance to actually win, ... People don't realize (that) it's a differ... TREY PARKER We were due for this win. This team knew we needed a win, and every player needed to do something to... ANDREW BROWN this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhilir... PRISCILLA WARNER Our talent in '82 wasn't as good as in '80 or '81. But we won when we needed to win, and everything ... LARRY SCHMITTOU We find ways to win. Even when we?re not at our best - like tonight - these girls find ways to win. DENNIS FOWLER We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to w... BEN BROUSSARD It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with a win. DUSTIN ALMOND Our point guard Czyz Bennett just took it up on himself and made great decisions. We needed that. As... ANDRE PAYNE We are frustrated regardless, ... It's going to keep on building if we don't get a win under our bel... DONALD DRIVER We can't come out here and think we are going to come on the floor and win it. We have to keep our h... KRISTIN TURK And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH I don't think it was a stellar game by any means, but we have to win these games no matter how we do... JOE NIEUWENDYK I thought we were going to win. Some calls were tough against us, some calls were fair. We had a 2-0... JAROMIR JAGR We can't play like we did today and expect to win tomorrow. We'll get run out of the gym. DERRICK BONNER We need to box out and get rebounds. That's been a key part of our game this year. When we rebound w... TRISTAN WELCH We needed this. This game kind of gives us a lot more confidence. A lot of people didn't think we we... ERIC DEVENDORF We can win if our politicians stay out of it, yeah, we can win. We need to send more troops in there... DAN GREGG See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we... LAUREN MYRACLE We are in a win-lose kind of relationship with communities that have the power to annex. When they w... JEFF LANG We are going to win the rest of our games. ANDREW KLINK It's just a game that we needed to win just to get off this streak we've been in. No matter how we w... BRANDON WEBB Everyone was getting a nice bat on the ball. They're starting to hit like I want them to hit. I told... CONNIE WUNSCHEL I knew we had to win and we had to win now. We just needed a spark and Andy provided that tonight. DANNY WHITE This team is a great team, and a team that knows how to win. Our coaches put us in position to win w... DAVID GIVENS There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer. ROBERT LYND We feel fortunate to get out of here with a victory. It feels like a loss though because we didn't d... ED ANDES My personal feeling is we all pay -- why not her. If we're all going to live in the same community w... MICHAEL JOHNSON I knew coming in that playing this team, win or lose, was going to be good for us. We needed this, w... BILL STRAND We got strong play from a few individuals, but we didn't get a collective effort from the whole team... TONY DITUCCI Obviously you always want to win. You feel better when you get a win. I was especially happy with ou... BILL WALTON This was the best possible way to go into Big 12 play. This is a team we were supposed to beat, and ... DAVID HOSKINS I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s... SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD Our kids really competed. If we can eliminate a few mistakes, we're going to give ourselves chances ... ED KELLY These are three games we definitely should win. We are capable of winning if we play the way we can ... KYLE PETTENGELL Now we are going in there expecting to win. We are not just going out there playing not to lose. We ... ASHLEY HAYNES That was pretty big, we built our confidence out of that. We knew going down the stretch that we wer... MIKE CHERE We knew everybody needed to swim well to finish out so the team could win. We couldn't win without e... DANIEL GLOVER
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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 Get off your butt and join the Marines! JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that... JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&... JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ... JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ... JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual. JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes. JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha... JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing. JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ... JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. JOHN MALKOVICH