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Tug McGraw Quotes

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 30, 1944 - January 5, 2004

Topics

Trouble Palm Ears Inches Seven Bent

Most times, you walk into a room, and you don't really have a starting point. You have to create the starting point, and normally you'd do that by thinking of a title or a concept for a song, then working back from there.

Walk Song Thinking You Back Create

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

Me Start Think Say Critics Always

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Men Nails Others More Never Like

I always sleep really well, particularly before a race, when the adrenaline's pumping.

Sleep Race Always Well Adrenaline

I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The rest of us enjoyed eating - on special occasions - chicken or fish or mutton.

Family Mother Eating Rest Fish Up

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Soren Kierkegaard

Passion Faith Generation Human May

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Time Challenge Yourself Step You

I used to go to sports camp every summer. I'd make a lot of new friends, and it was all athletic. It was basically a place for parents to send their kids to run out all their summer energy for two weeks.

Sports Parents Energy Friends Place

It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.

Martin Seligman

War People Roots World End Far Away

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

Passion Force Interest Balanced

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.

Life Intention Private Life Private

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

Go Kind Things Commercial Route Did

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