Landon Donovan quote: "The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace."

I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited t...
LANDON DONOVAN

You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
LANDON DONOVAN

I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
LANDON DONOVAN

If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundin...
LANDON DONOVAN

It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class ...
LANDON DONOVAN

I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
LANDON DONOVAN

We've had excuses for part of the year, but we don't have excuses now. This is a game we need to win...
LANDON DONOVAN

Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young ag...
LANDON DONOVAN

You can see that he already absolutely holds his own at this level, and I think that's incredible.
LANDON DONOVAN

I looked up and (Glen) was kind of fading away. So I just tried to put it in a good spot and he fini...
LANDON DONOVAN

He makes everyone better, but he's especially good for me. He's been our most consistent player. ......
LANDON DONOVAN

I don't know if we care about the result. At the end of the day it doesn't matter. It's not like we'...
LANDON DONOVAN

(It's been) tiring, ... but two wins (in a short time frame) is always good. Hopefully we can make i...
LANDON DONOVAN

When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer...
LANDON DONOVAN

When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're...
LANDON DONOVAN

Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.
LANDON DONOVAN

I expected more from them. At least for the next three or four years, they'll shut up. They can't sa...
LANDON DONOVAN

I would not say it is greatest moment. I would say it is the most gratifying, ... It's been strange....
LANDON DONOVAN

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or...
LANDON DONOVAN

Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take bet...
LANDON DONOVAN

My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is ...
LANDON DONOVAN

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but ...
LANDON DONOVAN

We still need to get points and make sure that we at least finish third in the West. But it is a goo...
LANDON DONOVAN

He's just a good soccer player, ... He's been around for a long time. He knows where the ball should...
LANDON DONOVAN

They are jealous of us, the Mexican players, because we've got a life and they have nothing, ... Bec...
LANDON DONOVAN

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal ? to move ...
LANDON DONOVAN

Having Claudio and John makes it easy on me because they do all the work. I don't have to worry abou...
LANDON DONOVAN

I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be...
LANDON LIBOIRON

I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
LANDON LIBOIRON

My whole family is really close. I'm lucky for that.
LANDON LIBOIRON

I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
LANDON LIBOIRON

The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
LANDON LIBOIRON

I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, th...
LANDON LIBOIRON

TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own tim...
LANDON LIBOIRON

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
LETITIA LANDON

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life...
MICHAEL LANDON

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
LETITIA LANDON

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has ...
ALF LANDON

I think that's part of the calling God has given me -- that if you're willing and faithful to do the...
LANDON ADAMS

It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighti...
LANDON ADAMS

It's heavy, but also it's sort of the philosophy of Hospice that it's not about death. It's about li...
LANDON ADAMS

I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normall...
LANDON ADAMS

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
MICHAEL LANDON

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life...
MICHAEL LANDON

She was talking away while he was carrying her around on his back.
TINA LANDON

She exuded the attitude that one day she was going to be in front.
TINA LANDON

[Perhaps most important, Judd, who helps choreograph Lopez's dance routines,] doesn't have a problem...
TINA LANDON

[No doubt Judd, 32, was the supervising nurse. Friends say the former backup dancer is trying to tea...
TINA LANDON

They can relax together. And when you're around Jennifer, that's amazing, because I never thought th...
TINA LANDON

I lost everything. We can't even find my car. I'm looking through this wreckage to see if I can find...
LANDON WILLIAMS

Ah tell me not that memory / Sheds gladness o'er the past; / What is recalled by faded flowers / Sav...
LETITIA LANDON

All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel f...
LANDON PARHAM

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Ev...
MICHAEL LANDON

You'd have died of a real bad case of slow.
MICHAEL LANDON

Ready, Fire, Aim.
MICHAEL LANDON

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor
LETITIA LANDON

We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing
LETITIA LANDON

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
LETITIA LANDON

As beautiful as woman's blush, - / As evanescent too.
LETITIA LANDON

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
LETITIA LANDON

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.
LETITIA LANDON

We're one of the only retail businesses where the price is preprinted. You can't raise prices becaus...
HUT LANDON

I'd like to uncover some worthy recipients and I'd like it if the member booksellers nominated progr...
HUT LANDON

We are looking at the definition of 'promoting literacy' in a broad sense.
HUT LANDON

I don't believe in that philosophy. But I also have a responsibility to my booksellers to look at al...
HUT LANDON

We were looking to close up a tax loophole. There's real money out there being lost. It's starting t...
HUT LANDON

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; with...
LETITIA LANDON

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
LETITIA LANDON

The independent bookstores that are left have learned how to compete in this marketplace. There are ...
HUT LANDON

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope
LETITIA LANDON

We've been working since the late '80s to get 49 widened. This will be an uphill battle.
DAN LANDON

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.
MARGARET LANDON

Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.
LANDON PARHAM

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.
MICHAEL LANDON

The Transportation Commission has looked at alternatives to generate enough money to fill the needs ...
DAN LANDON

This project is not a large project in terms of state funding.
DAN LANDON

By reducing the scope of the project, we can show the state that we have a viable project and viable...
DAN LANDON

That proposal reduced the scope of the project to keep it within the funding that's available from t...
DAN LANDON

Send in your letters. We need to make the governor's program a statewide program that will include r...
DAN LANDON

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
ALF LANDON

It's like any other high school sport. Kids come out and you might get cut. That's how high school s...
MARK LANDON

They're looking at going about two weeks per film.
MARK LANDON

I lost everything. We can't even find my car. I'm looking through this wreckage to see if I can find...
LANDON WILLIAMS

As the second story collapsed, they climbed onto the roof and part of it floated away and they float...
LANDON WILLIAMS

I lost everything. We can't even find my car. I think I'll move on to North Carolina and do some wor...
LANDON WILLIAMS

I didn't think it was going to be that bad.
LANDON WILLIAMS

The Bay Club looks like a castle in Italy and as you drive around the community you have a feel of l...
LANDON THOMAS

Developers many times take the best piece of land and build on it first but we saved the best for la...
LANDON THOMAS

This is one of the exceptional communities being built in Southwest Florida. The Colony is in its ow...
LANDON THOMAS

We're mixing our pitches like we want to. We're sticking to our game plan and our defense is playing...
LANDON POWELL

He spotted his fastball really well. The other part was that we were anxious, and we rolled over som...
LANDON POWELL

We're very proud of him.
LANDON MATHEWS

We had to go see him in school a couple of days.
LANDON MATHEWS

It was a lofty goal but if he wanted to do it we would support him. That's a quite of bit of money t...
LANDON MATHEWS

Our approach has been to take a very broad approach to potential customers. It's taken some time to ...
LANDON LACK

There are several solutions out there people can use as a point solutions. We're the only one that e...
LANDON LACK

There were times I felt I could have gotten our receivers (in practice), but I know I can't do that....
LANDON KAFENTZIS

The offense is a perfect fit for him, because it allows him to be an athlete. He can run and he can ...
LANDON KAFENTZIS

I know the turf is really hard. Really hard. Not the ideal playing surface, but it's a good place to...
LANDON KAFENTZIS

If (I throw) high then it's out of the zone, but where it looks good.
LANDON HORNBECK

The biggest thing is picking up the spin. It's a reaction pretty much.
LANDON HORNBECK

It was a huge win for us, I've been in some tough losses and this was a good win. This was the bigge...
LANDON HORNBECK

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
TATE DONOVAN

'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be su...
TATE DONOVAN

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know wha...
TATE DONOVAN

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
TATE DONOVAN

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.
TATE DONOVAN

I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
TATE DONOVAN

My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conf...
TATE DONOVAN

Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I rea...
TATE DONOVAN

I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career!
TATE DONOVAN

I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bor...
TATE DONOVAN

Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard...
TATE DONOVAN

'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
TATE DONOVAN

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
TATE DONOVAN

My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I want...
TATE DONOVAN

You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up...
TATE DONOVAN

I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very stric...
TATE DONOVAN

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
TATE DONOVAN

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
JEFFREY DONOVAN

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really l...
JEFFREY DONOVAN

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass mys...
DAISY DONOVAN

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good...
DAISY DONOVAN

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
DAISY DONOVAN

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly tha...
DAISY DONOVAN

All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
DAISY DONOVAN

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.
DAISY DONOVAN

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?
DAISY DONOVAN

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
DAISY DONOVAN

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the ...
DAISY DONOVAN

If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'
MARTIN DONOVAN

The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn't what you saw at the t...
TERENCE DONOVAN

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of co...
PATRICK DONOVAN

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.
ART DONOVAN

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even en...
DONOVAN BAILEY

I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the g...
DONOVAN BAILEY

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming...
DONOVAN BAILEY

I'm a competitor.
DONOVAN BAILEY

I think that every single person should play sports.
DONOVAN BAILEY

I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's to...
DONOVAN BAILEY

I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. T...
DONOVAN BAILEY

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on ...
DONOVAN BAILEY

Always educate yourself.
DONOVAN BAILEY

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lo...
DONOVAN BAILEY

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic g...
DONOVAN BAILEY

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.
DONOVAN BAILEY

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.
DONOVAN BAILEY

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to r...
DONOVAN BAILEY

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dy...
CARRIE DONOVAN

People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But ...
ART DONOVAN

Her fingertips dug into his shoulders as she pressed closer. Then her lips parted to his, and there ...
SIERRA DONOVAN

Love helped me live life instead of just survive it.
REBECCA DONOVAN

We were engaged in a very intricate dance of touching without touching, knowing without saying, and ...
REBECCA DONOVAN

Awesome. She's been working hard on the sideline, obviously, because her conditioning was good, too.
ANNE DONOVAN

We're relying on our practice guys, who have competed, to coming in morning and night.
ANNE DONOVAN

She's an injured player who's trying to come back. Our goal is to build her up for games. [And] I do...
ANNE DONOVAN

She's so good at dealing with pain. This is somebody you don't have to say 'suck it up' to.
ANNE DONOVAN

I think internally we're all feeling really good about it. To know that we accomplished the same rec...
ANNE DONOVAN

Betty's three is what everyone will talk about, but (Burse's) offensive rebound was huge.
ANNE DONOVAN

Saturday's game is important for several reasons. It is the last regular-season game, and it not onl...
ANNE DONOVAN

I think it is huge that this team played that way down the stretch. At the end of the game we have t...
ANNE DONOVAN

Sheryl's proven herself as a class act, ... The people who will make a big deal out of this probably...
ANNE DONOVAN

Sheryl's proven herself as a class act. The people who will make a big deal out of this probably hav...
ANNE DONOVAN

Our coach told us she would be the X-factor, and she was. She was amazing. We had our hands in her f...
AMY DONOVAN

Yeah, we're disappointed, but you gotta show them the respect they deserve. And it was a great seaso...
AMY DONOVAN

We played our hearts out. I have no regrets.
AMY DONOVAN

I told them we didn't want tears in our picture. We gotta be about sportsmanship on the court.
AMY DONOVAN

Our coach told us she would be the X-factor, and she was.
AMY DONOVAN

We just needed to pick up the defense and the rebounding, and we did that.
AMY DONOVAN

It's going to be another battle. We know they're not going to lay down. We need to play harder next ...
AMY DONOVAN

The first two minutes of the second half were the most important. That's when we played our best.
AMY DONOVAN

That was a great effort by them. All I have are good things to say about those girls. They played to...
AMY DONOVAN

Tubby Smith always went out of his way to be friendly. He had me in his office. He would talk to me ...
BILL DONOVAN

So many parents tell their kids how great they are. When he didn't make the team, I told him he had ...
BILL DONOVAN

It's basically less than a one-year payback. It's free money.
BILL DONOVAN

I'd say anyone would be very hard-pressed to get Billy to leave Florida.
BILL DONOVAN

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.
MARTIN DONOVAN

I eat apples whole, seeds and all... yes, like a horse.
TREVOR DONOVAN

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.
ART DONOVAN

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone li...
DONOVAN BAILEY

Whether it said across their jersey 'Cinderella' or 'George Mason' or another team, it didn't matter...
BILLY DONOVAN

I didn't know if we had enough experience.
BILLY DONOVAN

You have to do a great job evaluating those kids maybe in the top 25 to 100. So we could (eventually...
BILLY DONOVAN

For 50 or 60 years, Kentucky has dominated this league. You can't expect every year for them to do w...
BILLY DONOVAN

It is an emotional, draining year. And that's always a concern for you as a coach, especially when y...
BILLY DONOVAN

I really feel like the only game where we were outfought was at South Carolina. For whatever reason,...
BILLY DONOVAN

A little bit of both.
BILLY DONOVAN

I have said before that we are not the most talented team, we are not the best team and there are al...
BILLY DONOVAN

Last year at this point, I was in the film room dealing with a kid who wasn't getting the opportunit...
BILLY DONOVAN

It just goes to show you that you're not as good as you think you are, and you're not as bad as you ...
BILLY DONOVAN

I asked the seniors if they wanted to get up and say something. The seniors got up and thanked their...
BOB DONOVAN

The second period hurt us. They gained control of the game.
BOB DONOVAN

It is a nice accomplishment to go undefeated in the league.
BOB DONOVAN

We are preparing for every game to play our game. We have to be skating for three periods to be succ...
BOB DONOVAN

What I meant by the stretch drive. Is that we are heading into the heart of our Bay State League sch...
BOB DONOVAN

We are looking for our identity. The month could determine the type of team we will be. We are playi...
BOB DONOVAN

For a guy that doesn't complain, that works extremely hard and really never receives credit for the ...
DONOVAN MCNABB

It is easier to focus on the finished painting rather than stress over every stroke of the brush it ...
DONOVAN WILSON

I have no problem with anyone storming the court. But storm the court after the opposing team has go...
BILLY DONOVAN

Scott found a Superfund site vacant for many years and not on the tax rolls. It matched all our crit...
DANIEL DONOVAN

The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.

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Landon Donovan

The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.

Landon Donovan

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