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Its amazing, I cant ask for anything more as a birthday gift, ... Ive wanted to win a big race like this at this track ever since I was little.


Bobby Butler

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I've wanted to play for this team since I was a little kid. I feel like a rookie.
CHRIS BURNS you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be ...
CATHY MORIARTY I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
PAUL WALKER Since this was my last year, I really wanted to go out with a bang. This was really big for me.
DEBBIE MERRILL I said, 'Bobby, I've had this crazy idea since I was a student,'
BILL DURHAM We are more than a little excited. This was a big win for the boys.
BARBARA HOUCK I really like volleyball, but track is amazing. It's such a rush and unlike anything I've ever felt ...
ASHURA JENKINS I've always wanted a family since I was a little girl - a big family. I'm an only child, so ...
BEHATI PRINSLOO Since the overall World Cup title is what we aim for, it is good to win our first technical race of ...
CHRIS WILLIAMSON It was awesome. This group of seniors, I love them. They're my best friends. To go out like we did, ...
EDDIE THIEBE Tea?” Daniel asked, signaling to the innkeeper.
“Please. Or anything that is hot.” She pu...
JULIA QUINN Finally, he reached his street. It was quiet, blessedly so, and the only sound was his own groan as ...
JULIA QUINN His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?”<...
JULIA QUINN Then, with a cheeky quirk of his brows, he leaned forward and murmured, “Would it be improper of m...
JULIA QUINN Daniel chuckled. Whoever that poor girl was, he hoped his family was paying her well.
And then,...
JULIA QUINN Have you seen Frances?”

He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooti...
JULIA QUINN He said he loved me,” she whispered.

Daniel swallowed, and he had the strangest sensati...
JULIA QUINN It was totally amazing. I saw this flash, like a streak. Then I saw this explosion, like a big boom.
JACEK PURAT I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
IRV KUPCINET Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. ...
BRUNO MARS All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought it s...
MAX ANGELELLI This is icing on the cake. I couldn't ask for anything more. I feel like crying right now ... I wond...
GARRETT GOMEZ I thought we played very well on defense but we need to figure out a way to score a little more. Thi...
ALLEN PRITCHETT I just wanted this game. I was going to do anything to win. It didn't matter what. I think we just h...
KAMESHA HAIRSTON It's a blessing. It's like always when I was a kid, I would say, 'I want this, I want that' as far a...
CHARLES JOHNSON Seeing Tony do it last year at Indy, I was envious. I said, 'I want to do that at Vegas.' It's a big...
KURT BUSCH I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in t...
ALETHEA KONTIS I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But yo...
SARAH REES BRENNAN Mental health, for me, is doing everything I can to help this team win. Sitting around not doing any...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at...
MINDY KALING It was a fantastic race. I really wanted to win a big race after the Olympics because in two weeks' ...
HAMISH CARTER It was our dream ever since seventh or eighth grade. Ever since we found out the game was (at UA), w...
NATHAN HALL I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or boo...
MARK BRIDGES It was a big unknown at the beginning. I've never had anything like this as far as a fire extinguish...
DANIEL KING I remember winning my first car race. It was just an amazing feeling and I knew I wanted to keep rac...
MARC DAVIS It was pretty big, I had to go through some really tough matches. I'm going to try and win next year...
RASHAD WILLIAMS She deserved to win this one, I was a little bit lucky, ... I have no excuse for serving like that.
ELENA DEMENTIEVA We're in the business of rocking. Our idea, ever since the beginning, was we wanted to take this as ...
ERIC DILL I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum conte...
BUDDY RICH I woke up knowing we were going to win this for her. I wanted to win this for Coach G. I get tired o...
LINDSEY HARDING For Sara and I to do this together is amazing. We've been together since we were 15 years old. We've...
BECKIE SCOTT At one of the memorials, I promised [Zach] I was going to go win this for her. It was a big motivati...
CALVIN CARDILLO You don't ever think about anything like this happening. I always said I was going to win the lotter...
CHARLOTTE HOLTZCLAW This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.
IAIN THOMAS If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?
It's bad day in b...
DEYTH BANGER To me this was a shocking (birthday) present, like I was so scared but at least I came through it. T...
JOSHELYN VIVAS This is the seventh Giro stage win of my career and it's a gift for my son Ewan because it's his thi...
ROBBIE MCEWEN I've tried to imagine winning this race since I was a boy, but I couldn't; it's magic. It was just l...
MARTIN BRASSIL Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH This was amazing! This was more than I ever imagined the Opening Ceremonies to be. It's greater than...
ANTHONY LOBELLO I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at chu...
LAMORNE MORRIS Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pre...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS I wanted to push the guys and they responded. I couldn't ask for anything more.
EILEEN GIVENS I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN This is the team I've always wanted to play for. It's the team I've cheered for since I was young. T...
KIM SQUIRE It was a good race. The car was getting a little slippery at the end. I certainly didn't want to get...
EDDIE HOFFMAN This was big for us after coming off two losses to get a win like this, ... It was nice to finally w...
CRAIG RAY Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I just wanted to be the one taking the shots. They were tough shots. I got some lift on them and hit...
ZACH RANDOLPH The Big 12 is always looked at as a powerhouse conference, and if we are to win this game it would g...
JEFF BALLARD There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL I've been dreaming about this since I started racing. I've lived for this moment. it was a very grea...
JUSTIN GATLIN More than anything, coming to a new organization like this, it wasn't about making the team or anyth...
BRIAN TALLET I wanted to be in pageants since I was a little girl,
BILL WALKER Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.
DREW VAN ACKER Bobby, I know I just shot a 72, but I've had a fantastic and rewarding life and now I'm going out to...
DALE DOUGLASS It's large coming back here to drive as a champion although I was at the Speedway as a spectator for...
DAN WHELDON I've dreamed about winning the Race of Champions at Oswego since I was a little kid. It's just super...
BRIAN BOWEN As soon as they announced it, I knew I broke the record. My goal at the time was 'I'm going to win t...
A.J. ELLISON Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I It was the quietest 42 points I've ever seen. This is as big of a team effort and as big of a win as...
DAN MILLER I couldn't ask for anything better on my birthday than having the cup in my hands. It was a fantasti...
STEVE COSTALAS I know we can win this meet. The coaches say they have a really good squad this year, a little bit s...
BRIELLE WHITE The track was real good. You could run the top and the bottom and then you got in the middle. I mean...
TERRY PHILLIPS It looked like he was galloping, and I thought he was going way too slow. But he went :49 1/5, and I...
DAN HENDRICKS Ever since I was little I wanted to travel, and with my dad being a member of the Rotary, I thought ...
SAMANTHA ALDOM I think this was a very big win. Vermont is a team that we always point to as a big game. We haven't...
RICH CONOVER I didn't think it would be anything like this. Amazing.
CHRIS JOHNSON The track is a little bigger than what we normally run around here and I actually thought it might b...
BEN MURPHY Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL I immediately said to myself Ive got to do something, ... Ive got to help as many as I can. I am not...
AMY COLLINS Beating a ranked team at their crib, that's huge. For this Big Ten race, that's something that we ne...
MAURICE AGER We had been looking forward to this game since losing that game. This is not only a big win for thes...
ED BELBIN It's just the best Christmas gift I could ever ask for.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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