Don Yaeger Quotes

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.

Don Yaeger

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We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

John Buford

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I feel like that nature has this great power.

Jenova Chen

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The more successful we get, the more opportunities come our way.

Matthew Ramsey

OpportunitiesWayMoreSuccessful

Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.

Sue Wicks

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We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

GreatDemocracyWorldBuildingDown

Definition is the death of discovery.

Tom Shadyac

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Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier

VisionImaginationPictureYouOwn

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

Marty Robbins

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I came to L.A. when I was 19, and my two roommates were blue-eyed, blond dudes. I helped coach them, and they both landed pilots.

Michael Pena

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Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.

Jay Parini

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I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

Cliff Curtis

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I like to challenge myself and grow as an actress.

Cobie Smulders

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