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Some of my coaches run. Some lift weights. I play basketball. It's what I do.


Al Skinner

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JOHN PETERS I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
RALPH FIENNES Real men don't lift weights, they lift women.
EVERY MALE BALLET DANCER I lift quite heavy weights, but unfortunately no one believes me.
CYRUS BROACHA I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my...
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BRANDON CAMERON I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
JOEL OSTEEN Basketball is her life. Her getting to see me play is my motivation. I don't know what she'd do with...
KARLA MORIEL I think we've righted the ship and are ready to play some good basketball.
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KELLY CLARKSON I think we can have two going at some weights.
LUKE MICHAELSON I have nine coaches not on my (teaching) staff here, including five head coaches. It's getting tough...
CRAIG MILBURN I come from an athletic family. Anytime we lift weights, we gain weight.
JOEY GATHRIGHT I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.
MARK TEIXEIRA I lift weights and do as much cardio as I can make myself. I'm not a big cardio fan, and I hate ...
CHARLIE WEBER I get up at 4:30 A.M. pretty much every morning during the week. I work out for an hour and a half. ...
CHERI BUSTOS They're going to run up and down, open up the floor, use their athleticism and play some exciting ba...
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DWIGHT FRITZ Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day ...
ZAKK WYLDE I was playing baseball for Penn Hills, some guys saw me and kind of recruited me to play basketball.
DENNY JACKSON I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.
BODE MILLER I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB We train five days a week. We lift weights in the beginning of our season and we run for endurance a...
GINA DRYDEN I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and pow...
JAKE PAVELKA I couldn't do much as a coach. I just had to let the kids play. The kids did it. Players make coache...
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CLAYTON SCHNEIDER I absolutely loved basketball. All I ever wanted to do was play basketball.
BROOKE SWEAT To some extent we have the same eating patterns because we live together. We lift about the same amo...
CHRISTINA ROBERTS I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at h...
VIVICA A. FOX It was a chance to play in front of these coaches and show what I could do. I was taking advantage o...
DEWAYNE WISE I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a ...
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man'...
T. J. THYNE I like the head coaches at all of these programs…that's one of the main reasons they're my top...
ANTHONY LEWIS I like the head coaches at all of these programs…that's one of the main reasons they're my top fou...
ANTHONY LEWIS He didn't have to lift any weights. All he has to do is show up on the block.
ALONZO MOURNING I think that free throws are the most overlooked thing in basketball. There are some coaches who don...
JACKY GADDIS If I were in his situation, I think I'd want to run some of my ideas by some friends, and even enemi...
JOE BARNHART We both like to run and play up-tempo basketball. I probably have a little more structure to my offe...
CHAD JACKSON In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30...
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BRAD HARRIS In the first set I went out and played my game. The second set I let her play my game. In the third ...
COURTNEY JONES I play basketball. This is what I do. There's a lot of pressure put on me, but I'm a complete player...
DEE BROWN That's what I do, ... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke ....
BEANIE SIGEL I do like working out. I feel my best when I work out, but you know, I'm human. I like to ride m...
SHEMAR MOORE I comprehended my swing. I made some changes, and I know what I can do.
BOBBY MOSBY I’m not going to blame it on all the (North Carolina) coaches, ... I have my share of [fault]. I p...
WILLIE PARKER Basketball is a game of runs. I've heard that from all of my coaches and I tell the kids that now. W...
DAVE BRAET It gets you all fired up to go lift weights now.
CARLAI MOORE Basketball is a game of runs, and we had a run they didn't match. Our pressure led to some quick tur...
DRU JOYCE Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner part...
BORIS JOHNSON I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some leg...
CHUCK ROBINSON I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.
CANELO ALVAREZ I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using ba...
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE In some parts of the city, curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it threw it in the river with lead we...
TERRY PRATCHETT We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.
LOU GRAMM Coming in, a couple of people were talking about it after talking to the other coaches. All of our c...
ERIC HRONEK You can't build muscles by having someone else lift weights for you.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN I didn't talk to Eddie at all about it. I injured my neck on Thursday doing weights but it probably ...
ANDREW JOHNS I'm going to go see some of my teammates. Say what's up to the coaches, probably go see some profess...
DAN ORLOVSKY I don't think we gambled as much as we normally do. Sometimes we try to make the home-run play, the ...
JAMAAL WILLIAMS You get a complete workout in 30 minutes. At the YMCA or the Wellness Center I have to lift weights ...
JAMIE MECIMORE I was planning on coming out for basketball this year, but the football season took its toll on me p...
JAMES HARDY I play defense. That's what I do, and I like doing it. That's tough when you don't get the opportuni...
LARRY HUGHES A lot of the guys don't want to commit to the whole program. Some of them don't even want to have to...
BRIAN DIVELBLISS It helped out a lot that I was in Providence. I got to know some guys, the coaches, and the style of...
ANDREW ALBERTS Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blac...
CHARLIE SIFFORD Coaches like my intensity and how physical I play the game.
DOMINIQUE JOSEPH I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am sti...
KATJA MILLAY It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and pl...
MICHAEL JORDAN I have a lot of respect for Al Gore -- that is why I kept my promise not to run if he did,
JOE LIEBERMAN I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
RICHIE SAMBORA Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I d...
JACOB DALTON No matter what happens, they will leave this tournament a better basketball team. They're as capable...
DELL LEONARD I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.
CLINT EASTWOOD I knew I had to step up tonight with Al (Jefferson) out. It was a good feeling to be called on and b...
BRIAN SCALABRINE Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with ca...
CHARISMA CARPENTER We have somehow found a way to win most close games. I think that's what we've got to continue to do...
HARRY MASCH We're fairly talented and hopefully the second half of the season will be the best basketball we pla...
LUKE VAIL The style we play n we know at some point the other team is going to make a run. We have to keep our...
BILL LEWIT I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never...
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural p...
MERLIN OLSEN If I play my game, I think I can give some pretty hard matches.
ANNIE HOUGHTON Emily Osment has 'osteo-old-woman-itis.' She can't lift weights or do physical activity ...
LUCAS TILL to lift some spirits up.
BO BICE I wanted to be able to call bullshit on some of these guys. OK, Bill O'Reilly, OK Al Franken: 'What ...
PAUL RIECKHOFF This one was decided early, and we're starting to play some pretty good basketball right now.
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BRIAN WHITE I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heav...
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CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made...
B. F. SKINNER I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In o...
B. F. SKINNER I'm very pessimistic.
B. F. SKINNER I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
B. F. SKINNER I never really expected to be controversial.
B. F. SKINNER I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
B. F. SKINNER I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inher...
B. F. SKINNER You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid st...
B. F. SKINNER The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the n...
B. F. SKINNER What is sought can never produce the seeking.
B. F. SKINNER We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
B. F. SKINNER The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorro...
AL-HASAN AL-BASRI I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co...
AL GORE A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
AL GORE Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
AL JARREAU You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything ...
AL FRANKEN Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in ...
AL GOLDSTEIN My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuf...
AL JARDINE