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Dick Schaap Quotes

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

Dick Schaap

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 27, 1934 - December 21, 2001

Topics

You Choose Vote Athlete Significance

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

John Madden

Baseball Better Games Opening Days

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Robert G. Allen

Rich Become Optimist Out Buying

I have tremendous respect for Christopher Darden, and I recognize him as an individual of integrity, who did his job to the best of his ability, and I want to tell him thank you. Thank you for enduring hatred from his own community, for being ostracized and called an Uncle Tom and a sellout.

Sterling K. Brown

Integrity Community Respect Best Job

I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.

Julia Roberts

Life Work Hard Box Fortunate Earned

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Liu Xiaobo

Life Wisdom Freedom Progress Death

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.

Judi Dench

Good Be Kind Better Learn You Early

When I'm getting ready for a movie, let's just say my diet is 'The Antisocial Diet.' I don't go to restaurants. I don't eat what I really want to eat. I don't eat much. I eat small things frequently. Lots of protein and greens. And I don't eat with people, because there's a tendency to get social and then to overeat.

Jason Statham

Small Things People Small Diet Ready

My grandmother, in her retirement home, actually has a picture of me from 'Star' magazine on their fashion police list. I think that's hilarious, but if Grandma approves, then I feel like I am all good.

Brad Goreski

Good Home Police I Am Me Fashion

I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then, looking at me, 'Well... good morning!'

Phyllida Lloyd

Good Morning Woman Me Looking Well

Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.

Pico Iyer

Car Daily Adventure Me Think Worry

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

Peter Warlock

Good Music Bad Old Whatever Modern

Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.

Sharon Kay Penman

History True Possible Try Historical