Nathalie Dechy quote: "I'm relieved. I had the worst possible start but then (captain) Guy (Forget) told me I was playing badly and it was 7-6. It gave me confidence and I played better afterwards."

I had a meeting with Bob and he told me I wasn't playing. Then I came back in the afternoon and he t...
JAN BULIS

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and...
GARRY MARSHALL

When I got to Central Arkansas, I was a small, slim guy with little chance of playing in the NBA. Th...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then afte...
YOGI BERRA

He was actually too good. I played a great first set and then he was playing much better than me.
GASTON GAUDIO

I'd had (No. 3) since I was 7 years old. I guess it worked out perfect with me and Stafford. They to...
BRYAN EVANS

It was back and forth. I know at one point he was up 5-4 and then he was up 6-5. Then he lost a coup...
JAMES VANEK

I still don't think that my doctors told me exactly how bad it was. They told my wife. They tried to...
ERNIE ELS

He told me and the refs that my players were playing dirty. But I learned that afterwards he was jus...
CHRIS BACA

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to b...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL

It was a tough putt at the beginning. It was uphill to start and then down with a 6- to 7-foot break...
SERGIO GARCIA

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
CARLENE CARTER

I was expecting to make a better tournament here, but I play a guy that today was better than me. It...
GASTON GAUDIO

I was expecting to make a better tournament here, but I play a guy that today was better than me, .....
GASTON GAUDIO

The team played really good in front of me and made it easy. The defense was unbelievable and they w...
ANDREW PINSENT

It was time to start cheating and getting steals. I told my teammates to back me up because I was ab...
DOMINIQUE JOHNSON

It felt great. I was tired of the slump. I had confidence and my team encouraged me to just keep on ...
CHADD MOORE

I was No. 6 in the pecking order and was constantly being scolded, so I got fed up and resigned. My ...
VINCENT LO

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5...
FRED COUPLES

I was a bit apprehensive about joining. But it just gave me so much more confidence.
LYNN FORD

I was playing up and down. It really helped my confidence and helped me win.
ALEXIS PLUKAS

That gave me a lot of confidence. It was a great opportunity for me, and I'm really thankful I was a...
DANNY COYNE

I found the (long blonde) wig in his closet just a while back. I was relieved when he told me what i...
ANDREA JOHNSEN

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was s...
JULES FEIFFER

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.
LAURA SMITH

I was scared (when that happened). But it went in and that just gave me the confidence to make the s...
DOMINIK WILKINS

The whole crazy business seemed to pull out of my guts the very worst in me—my worst fears—the w...
LON MILO DUQUETTE

Once I got the first one, it gave me more confidence. I was in a zone and I just wanted the ball.
KRISTEN BARRY

The beginning was fine, but then afterwards it was too much for me today.
IVETA BENESOVA

I felt good today. I lost 6-3 to the No. 1 guy in the state, and I got pinned by him last time. It g...
JOSH NEWMAN

I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career . . . he gave ...
DENIS ISTOMIN

I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career . . . he gav...
DENIS ISTOMIN

I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career. ... He gave m...
DENIS ISTOMIN

I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career he gave me ...
DENIS ISTOMIN

I played good today, but had too many unforced errors. It was very good for my career ... he gave me...
DENIS ISTOMIN

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON

I hope it's a good sign. It gave me a lot of confidence going to Cleveland. Almost too much, though....
ANDREW PRATT

Are you mad?" I ask.
"I was." He glances at the ceiling then back at me. "Or confused, anyway. ...
JODY GEHRMAN

It gave me confidence. I made some plays, and I competed.
DERRICK JOHNSON

The doctor initially told me it was a sprain so I kept playing.
LAUREN EMERSON

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' ...
SOJOURNER TRUTH

I was just answering the phones, and the gentleman on the other end wanted to know when softball sea...
LINDA WATSON

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that...
MICHAEL JORDAN

If you told me the score was going to be 20-7, obviously I feel like offensively we're better than t...
DREW BREES

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

That was fun, ... I don't think I've ever done anything like that before. The route didn't work out ...
JEFF ROWE

He knows I was the guy who just kept coming back and screwing things up, so he had to send me back. ...
BOBBY MEACHAM

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe...
SARAH DESSEN

I saw the coaches around. It was kind of understood. When I really understood was when I walked in a...
EARNEST GRAHAM

I asked him why he gave me a girl's name, ... He told me it was the proper way to spell it. But no o...
JOHN MADDEN

I needed to realise my role in the drama and it was only then that I could learn and be better for i...
TONY CURL

I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain...
HANSIE CRONJE

It was more a practice match for me, ... I pulled a muscle playing doubles yesterday, but once I was...
ANASTASIA MYSKINA

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point ...
JO DURIE

This season was probably my worst season of curling ever. I just wasn't playing with any confidence ...
DAN KAMMERLOCK

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy bl...
BARBRA STREISAND

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing mysel...
SCOTT HAMILTON

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to we...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

They told me it would be a couple weeks, but in a couple weeks, it didn't get better. I went to see ...
FELIX PIE

I hated reunions. It made myself felt so little afterwards. When I was there, I couldn’t help not ...
MARCELLA PURNAMA

That gave me confidence I could play with it. Now I'm used to it. Playing without it would be like p...
ASHLEY CAIAFA

And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back ...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

Coach (Mike Hackett) told me I was going to get a three, and just to knock it down. I can't explain ...
JEFF MARINIER

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE

I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the mome...
KEVIN SMITH

I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I w...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

I was into her and it was creating some kind of war inside me. A war between the guy I was and the g...
CAMBRIA HEBERT

I think I took my first one when I was 6 or 7, and I hit the post. And I hadn't scored from then on.
VINNY LECAVALIER

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better ti...
ROBERT REDFORD

I finally just got comfortable, that's all it was. Seeing one or two go in gave me confidence.
CHADD MOORE

The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a ...
AYELET ZURER

I'm going to look back at last year and say it was the worst place I ever played. I look forward to ...
ANDRE MILLER

I was just getting after it, I guess. Coach told me to get fired up in the huddle. I came out and ju...
JASON COCKRELL

And how many a town to which I gave respite while it was unjust, then I overtook it, and to Me is th...
QURAN

I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and ...
BOB NOVAK

He deserved to win. The match was very easy for him, ... His style of play didn't surprise me, but w...
CARLOS MOYA

But my mom knew this was my job and she gave me her blessing and told me to stay out here and do the...
MARCUS TUBBS

I was pleased to be involved in the squad, then to get on and win my 14th cap. To win 3-0 was a bonu...
GRAHAM KAVANAGH

An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King ...
DON RICKLES

It never crossed my mind not playing, ... Once they told me I could play, it was cool.
ANDREW POWELL

[Miller still sounds awed when he recounts almost immediately finding himself in a studio with Davis...
MARCUS MILLER

But the absolute worst was when people asked if I was okay. Because then I had to admit that it was ...
SUSANE COLASANTI

[In my youth], I played a little soccer but I think because of my height and my friends I got involv...
FABRICIO OBERTO

The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- va...
CLAUDIA GRAY

When it first happened, it was a big deal. When it happened again it was big, too, but I felt I play...
CHRISTI NARDOZZI

I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and y...
BIBLE

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I go...
BRUCE WILLIS

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got fa...
BRUCE WILLIS

Tommy gave me my first chance on stage. And I won't forget it.
FRANKIE VALLI

My mom's reaction was the funniest. I told her I was playing in the All-Star game and she said 'why?...
JIMMY ROY

Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I ...
ANUSHKA SHARMA

I went head-to-head with him most of the game, playing all the special teams. He gave me a little en...
CHASE BLACKBURN

I saw the way Downie had played all game and I knew he was a player who played with an edge. We exch...
JACK JOHNSON

Things have happened pretty fast for me in this sport. I didn't even start playing until the ninth g...
AUDRA JEFFERS

We had our worst game of the year. I don't know if it was rust from not playing since last Friday or...
JEFF THORNE

It was fast and furious at the start. I played a good round. I've been playing well. I just haven't ...
BRAD BRYANT

I love playing the point now. I had never played point before, so it's not only giving me a challeng...
CHRIS TURNER

I'm relieved. I had the worst possible start but then (captain) Guy (Forget) told me I was playing badly and it was 7-6. It gave me confidence and I played better afterwards.

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Nathalie Dechy

I'm relieved. I had the worst possible start but then (captain) Guy (Forget) told me I was playing badly and it was 7-6. It gave me confidence and I played better afterwards.

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