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Rick DiPietro

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He makes it look so easy, like everything is in slow motion. It just seemed like another workman day...
MACK BROWN Every goal they got was a bad bounce for us. Off a stick, off of pads, off a skate. It was unbelieva...
DAVID LENEVEU I could see it unfolding. It seemed like slow motion.
SAM METZ You watched the replay, and it looked like it was in slow motion.
ERIK WESTRUM I don't like playing in this type of game. It gives me a headache. It was one of the ugliest games I...
LEON POWE Coach DiPietro has us playing like a team. He has us united. We've come together.
ANTHONY JORDAN Life in Slow Motion
DAVID GRAY Life in Slow Motion,
RCA RECORDS It was like everything was in slow motion. I could see every shot.
MARK NICHOLS a train wreck in slow motion.
PATRICK LEAHY In the first quarter we were a little slow to get into our motion. Our job is to come off the bench ...
CARLOS ARROYO Some things were a little slow motion out there. I think the weather, with the day off (Friday), mig...
STAN CLIBURN in the slow motion that is the speed of humiliation.
COLSON WHITEHEAD It looked like something you'd see on TV, like it was in slow motion. It just buckled and went down,...
BONNIE LARKIN He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a...
WILLIAM FAULKNER My favorite memory about 'Baywatch' is the music. That was my favorite part. It was, like, m...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow m...
EMINEM We can see that train wreck coming in slow motion.
BILL QUIGLEY It's like a heel in the middle of my foot that I can roll off, ... It's sort of like a see-saw - mot...
VICTOR THOMPSON The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
RICHIE BENAUD It's been a slow-motion disaster. It's silent and invisible. People don't imagine this. It hasn't ca...
BORIS WORM We went from one end of the spectrum to the opposite in a matter of two games.
RICK DIPIETRO No, there's no excuses. I don't think we played as well as we did in Montreal. I don't have any answ...
RICK DIPIETRO They're a little bright. But they stopped the puck.
RICK DIPIETRO We came out these last two games with fire in our bellies, ... These last two games have been pretty...
RICK DIPIETRO It's a great honor. It's something as a kid you dream about. I remember watching the (1992) Olympics...
RICK DIPIETRO It's random testing, right, ... They see me and every time it's, 'OK Rick, you're up.'
RICK DIPIETRO I'm from the same town (Winthrop, Mass.) as Mike Eruzione, so every time you walk around the corner ...
RICK DIPIETRO If you want to talk about trash talking, you're talking Snowy. He's one of the best.
RICK DIPIETRO The clerk saw their last name and took care of them. Told them where to go and what to do. My grandf...
RICK DIPIETRO Anytime you walk around the corner, all you ever hear about is Mike and the '80 Olympic team. This g...
RICK DIPIETRO That goal was awful. It hits my glove, hits my mask, goes off my shoulder, goes off my stick and goe...
RICK DIPIETRO That was a brutal move, I should've just stayed in the net. That was embarrassing.
RICK DIPIETRO I don't know how to explain it. If we could bottle up these efforts against the Devils and use them ...
RICK DIPIETRO I don't think any team stops playing hard because they had some injuries.
RICK DIPIETRO Our goal is to get to the quarterfinals. As long as we do that, it's been a successful round robin.
RICK DIPIETRO There's a lot of teams we're chasing. It's no different from tonight and even versus Pittsburgh they...
RICK DIPIETRO Some people are so beautiful, we see them in slow motion.
YAMIN RASHEED It was like the game started going in slow motion for me. I just had to keep it under control and fi...
EMILEE HARMON Everything is in slow motion down there and silent. It could replace psychotherapy.
ASHRITA FURMAN That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would p...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
RICHIE BENAUD It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was like his body was in slow motion. He was checking out. I pulled his T-shirt back and I could ...
DAVID SAGE In those first two at-bats, I was just looking for a pitch to drive. I felt like I was in a zone, li...
BEN SAYLOR Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two ...
TONY PARKER I watched the goal from the penalty box. I saw it go in before it went into the net. It seemed like ...
BRENDEN MORROW From our angle, you couldn't tell if it was going to make it to the net or not. It looked like every...
JACK BALDWIN It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to w...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounc...
LAKE BELL As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facend...
TONY VERNA A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it's momentum becomes irresistible.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, sli...
DALLAS ROBERTS Again, we are still adjusting to the speed of the game. Sometimes we look like we're in slow motion....
WOODY ROBINSON I feel it is important to see the situation live. When you see it in slow motion, you can be fooled ...
TERJE HAUGE This is the biggest one they make, too. I fouled a changeup off the pad, and then a curveball catche...
AARON ROWAND It went in very, very slowly ... it was slow motion. I'm pretty excited it went in.
DAN BOYLE It's weird seeing Luis in another uniform. I think he signed with the Marlins when he was like 4.
JOSH BECKETT It looked like he got hit in the face by either a knee or a shin guard.
ROB GOOCH Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow m...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool im...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO When I heard the explosion, I turned around and looked and I saw the building, like when you take a ...
FREEMAN MILLER It's almost in slow motion. You're nervous, but once you're out there and the lights hit you, everyt...
ASHLEY HUBBARD Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault? Rick: Oh, he's just like any other man...
HUMPHREY BOGART It was so tough because it all seemed to be happening in slow motion. Our girls were so focused on j...
JEN MCDAVITT Shin Kong Life's offer surprised the market.
VICTOR CHANG I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?
Rick: Oh, he's just like any othe...
HUMPHREY BOGART We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're v...
KEITH EMERSON I haven't done that in awhile. It was twofold. First, we were missing our free throws. And it just s...
LONNIE BARTLEY Everything goes in slow motion at those times. And the desk is coming for my temple. I shove that ou...
KEITH RICHARDS Just those of us with sisters-in-laws who bounce off walls. I feel like I am watching a Ping-Pong ba...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN If Dave says it's right, then how could it be otherwise... Just joking
DAVE BISCHOFF Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S. TRUMAN Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S TRUMAN It looks like you?re ready for combat. Helmet, wrist guards, forearm pads.
JOHN DRUMMOND Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because no...
DONNA LYNN HOPE The Shin transaction was just the tip of the iceberg.
KITTI NATHISUWAN It's the end of an era for the franchise, that's for sure, ... It's the end of producer Rick Berman ...
DOMINIC KEATING It's the end of an era for the franchise, that's for sure, ... It's the end of producer Rick Berman'...
DOMINIC KEATING It's nice to run around in pads, ... I don't feel like quite the same person yet.
ITULA MILI Drought is a slow-motion disaster - it's a slow and creeping death for plant and animal life and pot...
KENNETH DIERSCHKE Concrete is a very hard, dense surface that sound bounces off, almost like a billiard ball would bou...
JACK RANDORFF We've gotten off to a slow start, but it's been good. We have learned to improvise, like with the ba...
AMY LAMBERT We're starting off slow. We're just trying to fight back the whole game, but you won't win many game...
DERRICK ROBERTS It has a campus atmosphere, where employees are able to bounce ideas off each other.
DAVE ALLEN I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of:
a) The dark
b) Cold shivers up your s...
RICK RIORDAN Live fully and without fear
RICK RIORDAN APOLLO'S DAILY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

"You are gorgeous and people love you!
RICK RIORDAN There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football t...
JIMMY JOHNSON With the storm surge like this and the slow movement of this storm, it wouldn't surprise me if we di...
JEFF WARREN The world oil market is in the grip of a slow-motion supply shock, in which a $70 to $75 barrel pric...
DANIEL YERGIN It was in slow motion. I was just watching it. It's nice luck, you know. I got a solid chunk of that...
BLAIR BETTS We'll want to get a feel for how balls bounce off the fence and get used to the field.
ROBERT EENHOORN And they wear pads, like little girls. I'd dare say we don't do that in rugby.
DUNCAN LARCOMBE To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once...
DONALD TRUMP, JR. We've got to try and come out ready to play everyday. I just don't think we came out with the intens...
ERNIE JONES Like [trainer Rick Smith] said, there was a lot of old leather out there.
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"Yeah?"
"Cerb...
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"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I me...
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As if to prove his point, the lord of the univer...
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Jason shrugged....
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I don't hate you."

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Percy: "Detention?
RICK RIORDAN They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a littl...
RICK RIORDAN Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decid...
RICK RIORDAN That's because we keep weapons in the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time m...
RICK RIORDAN Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy ...
RICK RIORDAN Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after ...
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu...
RICK RIORDAN They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..."
"Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

He slung his M16 onto his bac...
RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"

Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
RICK RIORDAN