Roger McDowell quote: "The excitement hasn't worn off. Now, the preparation starts to come to fruition. It's like with a new baby ? that first day is an ecstatic high. Now, it's time to go to work."

Obviously the success Leo had here was pretty much second to none. Hopefully we will continue that s...
ROGER MCDOWELL

My job is to get pitchers better. Walking into the Atlanta Braves [organization], you know the histo...
ROGER MCDOWELL

Everybody seems to be progressing right where they need to be. It's been a tremendous help, because ...
ROGER MCDOWELL

I wouldn't take back anything that I have done because it's who I am. I like to make people laugh. B...
ROGER MCDOWELL

Obviously, this is exciting. It's special. No, make that real special, given the history of this org...
ROGER MCDOWELL

PTSD is curable when one realises how the unconscious mind works and that the symptoms of PTSD are a...
ROGER ROGER

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I love doing every role I do!
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

There are no great scripts - just great films.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there'...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just on...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, th...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherw...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are jus...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try ...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous inte...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out ...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these other...
JOSH MCDOWELL

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said &...
JOSH MCDOWELL

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
JOSH MCDOWELL

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary....
JOSH MCDOWELL

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical i...
JOSH MCDOWELL

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the...
JOSH MCDOWELL

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
JOSH MCDOWELL

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to le...
JOSH MCDOWELL

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, t...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that pro...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
JOSH MCDOWELL

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empt...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that...
JOSH MCDOWELL

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as bein...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the ma...
JOSH MCDOWELL

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disin...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Chr...
JOSH MCDOWELL

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown ...
JOSH MCDOWELL

It's been a long day.
BOB MCDOWELL

We just wanted to see what we could contribute.
BOB MCDOWELL

The magnitude of the destruction was unbelievable. ... The scope of the conditions down there is jus...
BOB MCDOWELL

We had to take a big knife off one guy who we rescued. That's not anything that should be a surprise...
BOB MCDOWELL

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection...
JOSH MCDOWELL

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unu...
JOSH MCDOWELL

I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

It's definitely a very feminine season. There's just a huge variety out there, which is good because...
LAURA MCDOWELL

Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

We elect Democrats to the Congress to give us stuff and we elect Republicans to the White House so w...
CHARLIE MCDOWELL

In my home we are having to water every day, every night. I've put new plants in, some have died, so...
SUSAN MCDOWELL

Always have a little sweater with you.
LAURA MCDOWELL

My greatest asset now is my focus.
JOSH MCDOWELL

Frame everything in the same color frame. A grouping of things with similar frames has a sophisticat...
LAURA MCDOWELL

We hope she can definitely repeat that. Liz was going crazy when they announced where we were going....
CASEY MCDOWELL

When she speaks it is as if very thick olive oil is pouring vigorously over gravel chippings.
COLIN MCDOWELL

[Her] fingers are brandished as a crazed and half-starved Chinese would use chopsticks.. They prod a...
COLIN MCDOWELL

WHY BELIEF MATTERS,
JOSH MCDOWELL

The biggest threat of course is flash flooding. This is a very wet storm, it's going to drop a lot o...
JOSH MCDOWELL

If you look at cosmology, which is the study of the origin of the universe, whatever begins to exist...
JOSH MCDOWELL

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any nega...
JOSH MCDOWELL

I've got lots and lots of anxious moments ahead thinking that we are just one hit away, one bunt awa...
DAVE MCDOWELL

After one week, it sold a million records. Then it went on to sell five million. I was 26 years old ...
RONNIE MCDOWELL

My most memorable moment was seeing a Mercedes Benz trash truck. They had Mercedes Benz' over there ...
STEPHEN MCDOWELL

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just en...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships
JOSH MCDOWELL

At the end, you have to look at the positives. You have to look at the year we had.
CASEY MCDOWELL

If we can eliminate those turnovers, then we will definitely be right there with them.
CASEY MCDOWELL

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-...
JOSH MCDOWELL

We were in fact their first test. I thought we did a good job working all the way through until the ...
DAVE MCDOWELL

We played well. They have a good pitcher and we hit her and you have got to feel good about that.
DAVE MCDOWELL

I'm not afraid to tell anyone I'm very demanding. I'll accept physical errors, but mental errors are...
DAVE MCDOWELL

Having a champion at 171 pounds, sooner or later you're going to have to make him an Athlete of the ...
DAVE MCDOWELL

To advance as a sophomore is a tremendous accomplishment.
DAVE MCDOWELL

That's a real bonus. It doesn't matter how good you hit. To get the ball in the cup takes a bit of l...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

Things haven't been great for me recently. I'm working hard on my game and relish the challenge that...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

I left my putts short on the ninth, 10th and 11th but the birdie on the 14th gave me something good ...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

The Masters is going to be a special tournament,
GRAEME MCDOWELL

Monty was so easy to play with. He's pretty automatic in terms of hitting fairways and he makes all ...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

It's a brutal golf hole.
GRAEME MCDOWELL

I played nicely today but 18 kicked me in the butt a little bit. It's a cruel game and to be honest ...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

Golf is a cruel game.
GRAEME MCDOWELL

You know how frustrated I've been getting for the last month or so. I've been playing good golf but ...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

The 17th hole will be a lot of fun, ... I may go straight out and hit a shot there when I arrive.
GRAEME MCDOWELL

The time to learn that is not when you're in a crisis.
JANET MCDOWELL

You better have somebody seeing sexual assault victims who is willing to provide emergency contracep...
JANET MCDOWELL

Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He w...
MICHAEL MCDOWELL

He was the last great director of that era. He was the big daddy.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Though I would say this: if you are very fortunate, you will live long enough in this life to achiev...
NIGEL MCDOWELL

But remember this: no journey can be made without the risk of stepping into the dark.
NIGEL MCDOWELL

Right after RIM hit the million-subscriber mark in February 2004, there really has been an uptake in...
JEFF MCDOWELL

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for y...
LAURA MCDOWELL

I think people love throws because it's a quick way to update the room.
LAURA MCDOWELL

The whole quilted look is very popular but in bright, vibrant jewel tones.
LAURA MCDOWELL

Our typical customer is a woman, 25 to 34, who is shopping for herself and her home. Honey Creek Com...
LAURA MCDOWELL

You can wear a lighter-weight Bohemian skirt if it's light out. If you want to wear it at night, and...
LAURA MCDOWELL

Surf and skateboarding - all these looks are influencing boys fashion.
LAURA MCDOWELL

The Bohemian look is the hottest look right now.
LAURA MCDOWELL

There aren't any rules in terms of one thing that's in. There are a lot of different trends, which i...
LAURA MCDOWELL

People in Berkeley are suckers for a cause. They're really willing to put their hands where their he...
MICHAEL MCDOWELL

As the majestic pearl is formed inside a clam through much irritation, so are you being formed throu...
E. L. MCDOWELL

Making decisions in anger is like spitting in the wind; it comes back and hits you in the face.
E. L. MCDOWELL

Struggles are really opportunities for your next level.
E. L. MCDOWELL

Boredom is the result of lacking focus.
E. L. MCDOWELL

Prosperity is a mindset.
E. L. MCDOWELL

The greatest challenge man will face is himself.
E. L. MCDOWELL

State of mind determines destination.
E. L. MCDOWELL

Take nothing or no one for granted, for what is predictable today will one day become unpredictable ...
E. L. MCDOWELL

Build a man's ego and you'll win his favor; crush a man's ego and you'll receive much grief from him...
E. L. MCDOWELL

Time is an advocate for truth.
E. L. MCDOWELL

Sanctuary, on a personal level, is where we perform the job of taking care of our soul.
CHRISTOPHER FORREST MCDOWELL

Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical...
CHRISTOPHER FORREST MCDOWELL

Antagonists come with all life progression.
E. L. MCDOWELL

Closed doors present other opportunities!
E. L. MCDOWELL

Existence is the greatest opportunity one can have; so why settle for a mediocre state of being?
E. L. MCDOWELL

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the mid...
ROGER WATERS

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my ki...
ROGER FEDERER

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and wee...
ROGER STAUBACH

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular resu...
ROGER STAUBACH

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the p...
ROGER MAHONY

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when ...
ROGER FEDERER

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the be...
ROGER FEDERER

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's ...
ROGER FEDERER

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divor...
ROGER WATERS

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody ...
ROGER DEAKINS

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
ROGER BACON

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.
ROGER SHERMAN

In burgundy, a well-cut and properly tailored velvet blazer looks dashing with gray flannels and a c...
ROGER STONE

Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.
ROGER STONE

Bitcoin never sleeps. We need to move quickly and grow quickly and do everything sooner rather than ...
ROGER VER

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around...
ROGER WILKINS

I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would ...
ROGER REES

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, ...
ROGER FEDERER

Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brot...
ROGER STONE

'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Iden...
ROGER AVARY

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.
ROGER STONE

If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd r...
ROGER STONE

From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage ...
ROGER VADIM

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your poc...
ROGER STONE

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a poin...
ROGER PENROSE

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.
ROGER MILLA

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites ...
ROGER MILLA

Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players ar...
ROGER MILLA

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I thi...
ROGER EBERT

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, s...
ROGER MCGOUGH

Socks must be at least an 18-percent synthetic blend to insure they don't droop, because droopy ...
ROGER STONE

Lots of hardworking, blue-collar people across America have lost their jobs since the 1990s - victim...
ROGER STONE

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m...
ROGER MOORE

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
ROGER REES

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's...
ROGER BACON

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when dire...
ROGER EBERT

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
ROGER MOORE

Men play the game; women know the score
ROGER WODDIS

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
ROGER STONE

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do...
ROGER BIRKMAN

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam...
ROGER STONE

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
ROGER PENROSE

Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
ROGER PENROSE

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is h...
ROGER WICKER

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethi...
ROGER WICKER

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
ROGER SPERRY

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
ROGER ASCHAM

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on...
ROGER WICKER

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question ab...
ROGER WICKER

So you think you can tell heaven from hell - blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a...
ROGER WATERS

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
ROGER WICKER

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
ROGER ZELAZNY

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
JOHN ROGER

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
ROGER STARR

The Establishment on both the Left and the Right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republi...
ROGER STONE

I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.
ROGER STONE

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul...
ROGER WATERS

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so bi...
ROGER EBERT

Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket squ...
ROGER STONE

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable...
ROGER L'ESTRANGE

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employe...
ROGER SMITH

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
ROGER ASCHAM

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year th...
ROGER ASCHAM

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve
ROGER LEWIN

The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
ROGER EBERT

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized ni...
ROGER EBERT

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew ex...
ROGER BANNISTER

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ev...
ROGER ZELAZNY

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being t...
ROGER EBERT

You win not by chance, but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS

The excitement hasn't worn off. Now, the preparation starts to come to fruition. It's like with a new baby ? that first day is an ecstatic high. Now, it's time to go to work.

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The excitement hasn't worn off. Now, the preparation starts to come to fruition. It's like with a new baby ? that first day is an ecstatic high. Now, it's time to go to work.

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