Our girls expect to win the mile relay. If we get beat, it's like shock to them. However fast somebody runs, they're going to run fast enough to beat them.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO We didn't necessarily expect to win, but we knew we could beat them. But to win like that was unexpe... LAUREN DUSIN Our goal was to not let them have any runs. We let them have one run and that's what you get. They'r... MICHAEL BENNET We started to push the ball and beat Denver at their game. They like to run a lot and sometimes they... ANDREI KIRILENKO I couldn't get out of the van fast enough to run over to help. I was hoping we could help somebody. BOB HAHN We could run just as fast as we did last year if not faster. But we'll have to beat Cascade because ... GARY FISCHER You're going to have to go race those guys and beat them if you're going to get in the Chase and win... DOUG DUCHARDT Know Where You Want To Go - And Why. MANI S. 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Are you appreciated & r... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Somebody had to beat them in here. TOM IZZO Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again JOHN M SHEEHAN I just want to win, ... The field is stacked enough that we'll run fast. ALAN WEBB Why foul with 0.5 seconds left? It was dumb. We should have beat them. We had enough confidence to b... DANIEL KICKERT Life is never fast track. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA More than anything, she just wants to beat them. She really wants to beat them. It runs a little bit... KATIE HARDMAN We knew we could hang with them. And -- of course -- we knew they could hang with us. If you're goin... LEO DISIMONE The truck was really fast, we just couldn't get a long enough green flag run there toward the end to... KEVIN HARVICK If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record. STEVE PREFONTAINE We try to get fast with our hands instead of fast with our feet, and that gets us in foul trouble. T... CURT DOBBS Our players know that somebody, figuratively speaking, is going to beat those odds. It could be any ... ALFRED BEA We can be happy that we have a team like ours good enough to beat them. JORDI ARRESE We hope to make it to the playoffs. We're going to try to win the games we're supposed to, and hopef... JAMI GOLDSTEIN Our best hope is to try and win against Rockwall. We know Mesquite's going to go all out to win (the... CARL LOVE Playoffs are a crapshoot. I don't know if our team is good enough to beat everybody, but we're just ... BOB SHRADER To beat the champion, you've got to take it to them. We had to attack them and put the pressure on t... KAREEM RODRIGUEZ What we wanted to do is we felt that if we could stop them defensively and try to dominate the board... GEORGE FORNEY They're very sound fundamentally. They'll be a very, very good club. If we think because we beat Ala... JOE HUDAK Wax was a very fast greyhound ... ungodly fast. To the first turn he could be beat, but he'd come af... RICARDO PACHECO Some of these girls are recovering from injuries, so our performance will depend on how fast we can ... DICK MOSS IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to bu... DEYTH BANGER Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hop... KIRK PEDERSEN They will have the revenge factor going for them so we know we're going to have to bring our A game ... CRYSTAL LANGHORNE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Our girls knew from seeing Carmel win the last few years that they were the team to beat. That's not... GREG DAVIDSON Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh... DOROTHY B. HUGHES The fast bowlers showed there was enough movement in the air and enough movement in the wicket to en... JOHN BUCHANAN They're going to be tremendous hockey teams. We only have to beat them once, we don't have to beat t... BLAIR MACKASEY To survive is to win. ZHANG YIMOU You have to get good pitching to beat the Red Sox, period. When they have pitching like they do, you... JOE MADDON We get a bit more upset when we lose. I expect us to win. I expect us to beat Bingham and Riverton a... ALEX DUNN Our goal is to put non-stop pressure on teams throughout games. I think if we can do that we're goin... BOB ROWE I just was hoping to get a medal and try to keep up with Libby and Mel because they go out pretty fa... CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY (The coaches) told the kids if we could play our best ball, we could beat them. The girls believed t... AMY KRAUSE We know what to expect from the Wanderers. We only recently beat them, yet conceded five tries. KEVIN HOPKINS We want to run, jump and throw to beat somebody. We want to approach every meet the same. BRIAN SIMPSON We did a great job wearing the defense down. That was our goal. We felt like if we could run success... JARED ZABRANSKY We are going to beat most teams by outscoring them. DOC BEEMAN It means a lot for us to beat them. If we want to go as far as we think we can, they are a team we'r... MARK LEONARD Slow justice is justice denied. If we were going to lose, let me lose fast. If we're going to win, l... DON STOUT We had a great day. The kids really pulled it together today. After losing three times to U-E, they ... DWAYNE BOLT We played them real early in the season, but we know they are a scrappy team. I don't remember the s... GARY LONG It's going to be a grudge match. We beat them by one earlier this year, so they'll be looking for pa... JOHN LOFTIN The reason was, if we're going beat them, we're going to have to recruit like they do, practice like... BILL MCCARTNEY I've been waiting two months to get to this race. I've been saying the mile and an eighth can't get ... DANNY PEITZ We got to keep our heads up and play the ball we've been playing. We got to beat Robinson. We have t... ANTHONY ALLEN We can compete with them physically. We are more skilled. If we play to our technical level we will ... ANDREI ZUBAREV It was really neat that it came down to the mile relay. The girls were excited and it really helped ... DENNIS FORNANDER My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR We'd been hitting free throws lately, but we just couldn't make them tonight. In close games, that's... LONNIE PARAMORE I'd really like to beat them. JACE BONNER If our gifts are not surrendered to God, we tend to beat people over the head with them. UNKNOWN We don't like to say we run a fast-food establishment. We like to say we run a fast-casual restauran... BONNIE POLVERARI Our heroic staff cannot keep going much longer. We can't get our people out fast enough. DON SMITHBURG It's definitely going to help. Playing against them, it just makes us better. Playing against better... JOSH BRIGHT Always play a game with somebody, never against them. Always win a game, never beat an opponent. ANDREW BAILEY We knew coming in that UGF was going to make our guards beat them, and we were ready. BRIAN ORR If we're intimidated or scared, then there's no way we can win. If we think it's possible (to beat t... MICHAEL WILLIAMS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL We know West is a good ball team and we are going to need our best game to beat them. CORY LEWIS To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't... LEE SMITH They said in the huddle before the final game that we're going to beat them to five, and then we're ... GEORGE GORDON Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Our main goal (going into the MLL season) was to beat Linden. We beat them (in the second league mat... KAYLA GRACIA Our kids believed we could play with them, and we were able to hang with them for a while. However, ... BOB DELANO We knew if we wanted to be the state champion, we had to beat Bellevue West. If you're going to get ... ERIC BEHRENS We did it at our meet in Indianapolis in the 800 free relay and the 400 free relay and it allowed us... NANCY HINRICHS My teammates are great. It's fun to run with them. I also like the competition - trying to beat the ... JARED LESLIE When we played them last year, they were real physical on the inside. I told our girls we would have... 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When I look out of my window at all those construction sites, I see a sea of nonperforming loans loo... JACK RODMAN International investors have not gone into this with their eyes shut. JACK RODMAN That supply will far exceed demand, meaning owners will find it increasingly hard to rent out their ... JACK RODMAN The scale of development here is unprecedented anywhere in the world. JACK RODMAN In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. DENNIS RODMAN I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game. DENNIS RODMAN Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back ag... FRANCES RODMAN Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave tow... FRANCES RODMAN Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. DENNIS RODMAN I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas. DENNIS RODMAN This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. DENNIS RODMAN Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women. DENNIS RODMAN Good riddance to bad rubbish. RODMAN PHILBRICK Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or... DENNIS RODMAN They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas. DENNIS RODMAN The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and ... DENNIS RODMAN At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bed... DENNIS RODMAN I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I co... RODMAN PHILBRICK I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered. 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DENNIS RODMAN I do love animals, DENNIS RODMAN The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin FRANCES RODMAN I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway. DENNIS RODMAN Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the... DENNIS RODMAN I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive. DENNIS RODMAN Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when yo... RODMAN PHILBRICK Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a ... PETER RODMAN They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color. DENNIS RODMAN You can love me or you can hate me DENNIS RODMAN Bad as I Wanna Be. DENNIS RODMAN It's in the top 10, ... Those people didn't think I was smart enough. DENNIS RODMAN At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms wh... DENNIS RODMAN Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill ... DENNIS RODMAN My rookie year, I was very immature. DENNIS RODMAN I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoff... DENNIS RODMAN I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a musc... RODMAN PHILBRICK We think both sides would gain by having more interaction. We would learn more about them, and perha... PETER RODMAN I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women. DENNIS RODMAN The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound. DENNIS RODMAN The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete. DENNIS RODMAN I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter... DENNIS RODMAN Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else FRANCES RODMAN Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human FRANCES RODMAN I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and... RODMAN PHILBRICK We see it that the fight is still on and he knows that, PETER RODMAN Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours RODMAN PHILBRICK We didn't get the bounces we needed tonight. In a game like this, mistakes will kill you. But we hun... NEIL RODMAN I don't need to sink the ball, I just need to do things that got me where I was. At 44, it is diffic... DENNIS RODMAN Yet I will look upon thy face again,
My own romantic Bronx, and it will be
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Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure rob... JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
By angel hands to valour given,
Thy stars have lit the... JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom'... JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world... JACK HERER I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old. JACK WHITEHALL With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. JACK NICHOLSON The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today'... JACK REED The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed. JACK PALANCE Perfectionists are their own devils. JACK KIRBY Control your own destiny or someone else will. JACK WELCH I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy. JACK CANFIELD If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio... JACK WELCH Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma... JACK KEROUAC If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea... JACK NICKLAUS It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their att... JACK ZIPES Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal. JACK ZIPES In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration ... JACK ZIPES I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ... JACK ZIPES 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their... JACK ZIPES Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, ... JACK ZIPES The Grimm collections were never intended for children. 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JACK WILD At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly t... JACK WILD My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb. JACK WILD I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am. JACK WHITTAKER It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off. JACK WHITTAKER If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it. JACK WHITTAKER I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet. JACK WHITTAKER I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs. JACK WHITTAKER I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes. JACK WHITTAKER Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&... JACK WHITEHALL I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing. JACK WHITEHALL Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're no... JACK WHITEHALL My dad doesn't hug me enough! JACK WHITEHALL I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I ... JACK WHITEHALL My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't suc... JACK WHITEHALL I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me. JACK WHITEHALL I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm... JACK WHITEHALL I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely. JACK WHITEHALL There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms. JACK WHITEHALL I eat healthily, as it keeps my energy up. JACK WHITEHALL Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public scho... JACK WHITEHALL I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha... JACK WHITEHALL Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around. 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JACK WHITEHALL If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ... JACK WHITEHALL Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ... JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th... JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ... JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri... JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ... JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e... JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s... JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But... JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th... JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing... JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther... JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ... JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li... JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong... JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ... JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h... JACK WHITE I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ... JACK WHITE I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro... JACK WHITE There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&... JACK WHITE I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real... JACK WHITE One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo... JACK WELCH Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous... JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'... JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to. JACK WELCH Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea... JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. JACK WELCH There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ... JACK WELCH You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y... JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins. JACK WELCH Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus... JACK WELCH A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ... JACK WELCH Change before you have to. JACK WELCH Be candid with everyone. JACK WELCH If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too. JACK WARNER I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday. JACK WARNER 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even young... JACK WAGNER I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &... JACK WAGNER I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate... JACK WAGNER By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really mak... JACK WAGNER Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On... JACK WAGNER I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in la... JACK WAGNER We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ... JACK WAGNER My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou... JACK WAGNER My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe... JACK WAGNER My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co... JACK WAGNER Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. JACK WAGNER Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ... JACK WAGNER My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both. JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life. JACK VANCE I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f... JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years... JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young. JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. JACK VANCE Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it... JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use... JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn... JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha... JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s... JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough. JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting... JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c... JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection. JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew... JACK VANCE It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u... JACK VANCE The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning... JACK VANCE As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time. JACK VANCE If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. JACK VALENTI Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, at... JACK VALENTI Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched... JACK VALENTI I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden... JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better. JACK VALENTI