Damani J. Leech quote: "More student-athletes would be able to travel and to dress on the field, and it would give institutions the ability to bring more people along for the playoffs and for the title game. Making a profit is an individual institutional decision, but our motivation is to help them not spend as much money and be able to celebrate the event. This will hopefully allow people to do that."

Eight seeds is probably the furthest away from going down, and its not going in front of the board s...
DAMANI J. LEECH

A 12-game season will be discussed, but I don?t have a good read on where the conferences would come...
DAMANI J. LEECH

That will be an effort not so much in selling the brand as getting people on the same page with the ...
DAMANI J. LEECH

That?s the language that will be put in front of them, though the board may want to tweak that name....
DAMANI J. LEECH

Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only pe...
B. DAMANI

How lonely it is!
To be drowning,
in a place
where everyone can swim.
B. DAMANI

sometimes its hard to distinguish the weeds from the daisys but it wont be long before you find your...
AINE LEECH

She is a genius at being able to marry a form and style with beauty, and that is what the French exp...
BEVERLY LEECH

They had the same agent, so it is possible that it was an incredible publicity stunt.
BEVERLY LEECH

And if he was kind and friendly and funny, and if he told you about places so beautiful that you wan...
CAROLINE LEECH

One day, Lorna, I will dance this waltz with you again.
CAROLINE LEECH

We think it's going to revitalize the whole area.
DARRYL LEECH

People's minds are overloaded with information.
ALLEN LEECH

We're very excited to be part of the Marriott family of hotels, and we look forward to welcoming our...
DARRYL LEECH

We felt this hotel had terrific potential.
DARRYL LEECH

We'll make up the hours throughout this week so it won't hurt their pay.
LES LEECH

We had some miscellaneous work and outside cleanup, so anybody who wanted the hours had the opportun...
LES LEECH

We knew that a large percentage of our employees wanted to go to Omaha for this event and we decided...
LES LEECH

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT

I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT

If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT

When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT

You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT

I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT

I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT

I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT

People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT

A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT

I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT

Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT

I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT

I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS

You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT

There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE

I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT

It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
J. COLE

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you...
J. COLE

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ...
J. COLE

Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it e...
J MASCIS

I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo ...
J MASCIS

'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J MASCIS

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J MASCIS

I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ...
J MASCIS

People have to do what they want to do.
J MASCIS

All labels are offensive in some way.
J MASCIS

Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we...
J MASCIS

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J MASCIS

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess t...
J MASCIS

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J MASCIS

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate t...
J MASCIS

I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J MASCIS

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J MASCIS

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J MASCIS

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play reall...
J MASCIS

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
J MASCIS

The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to ...
J ALLARD

We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the con...
J ALLARD

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J ALLARD

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
J ALLARD

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
J ALLARD

I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real har...
J ALLARD

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
J. COLE

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the mus...
J. COLE

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot ...
J. COLE

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's w...
J. COLE

College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess ...
J. COLE

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. ...
J. COLE

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't ser...
J. COLE

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never...
J. COLE

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in...
J. COLE

Anything I do, I want to do it well.
J. COLE

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to...
J. TILLMAN

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself a...
J. TILLMAN

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I us...
J. TILLMAN

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would ...
J. TILLMAN

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of th...
J. TILLMAN

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was k...
J. TILLMAN

I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually mean...
J. TILLMAN

I play sad bastard music. For the money.
J. TILLMAN

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. TILLMAN

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angr...
J. TILLMAN

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's ...
J. TILLMAN

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be ...
J. TILLMAN

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff...
J. TILLMAN

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that...
J. TILLMAN

I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwrit...
J. TILLMAN

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. TILLMAN

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
J. TILLMAN

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
J. TILLMAN

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop unt...
J. COLE

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ...
J. COLE

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'...
J. COLE

For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.
JUICY J

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. COLE

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.
JESSIE J

I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? Wh...
JESSIE J

Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
J. FRANKLIN

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long...
J. COLE

It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my granda...
JESSIE J

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
J. KRISHNAMURTI

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
J. SWARTZ

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
JESSIE J

People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw beca...
J. MERRIDEW

There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it...
J. STERLING

We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us...
J. LYNN

Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
J. YAHL

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obsti...
J. SWARTZ

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship...
J. KRISHNAMURTI

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer...
J. KRISHNAMURTI

Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.
J. MASAI

A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways.
J. MCCABE

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
J. HELLER

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with ...
J. BARTLETT

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
J. BROTHERTON

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels o...
J. HAWES

Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - ...
JESSIE J

People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, '...
J. COLE

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. ...
J. COLE

I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who li...
JESSIE J

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. L...
J. COLE

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta...
J. COLE

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but t...
J. COLE

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that ...
J. COLE

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexual...
JESSIE J

I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r...
J. COLE

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.
J. COLE

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm a...
J. COLE

I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been t...
J. COLE

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a fi...
J. COLE

It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make...
J. STERLING

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