Jim McKay Quotes

Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.

Jim McKay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 24, 1921 - June 7, 2008

Topics

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Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Sonia Johnson

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Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

Steve Wozniak

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

Roger Rees

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I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up.

Dennis Farina

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Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

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Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I know how demanding show biz is. I fear that things would just end up bad if I'd date a colleague.

Coco Martin

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Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.

Alice Dreger

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When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable.

Winona Ryder

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Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.

Seth Shostak

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I've always had a huge dream of opening an animal shelter.

Shanice Williams

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I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

Kendall Jenner

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