Dan Dierdorf quote: "As I look back on it, I know our season ended the day J.V. died because I know none of us got over it. You just lose focus. All of a sudden you find out in some ways how childish you've been in the way you've devoted your whole life to this game. Then all of a sudden it hits you that there are bigger things in play."

You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything yo...
DAN DIERDORF

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else fall...
DAN DIERDORF

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else fal...
DAN DIERDORF

Everything else is sacrificed to that end. But all of a sudden something like that happens, and if y...
DAN DIERDORF

It's something that traumatizes an entire team, as well it should. It's just not something you easil...
DAN DIERDORF

Everything else is sacrificed to that end, ... But all of a sudden something like that happens, and ...
DAN DIERDORF

It's something that traumatizes an entire team, as well it should, ... It's just not something you e...
DAN DIERDORF

Just another bad play by Tommy Maddox, who had as bad a day as a quarterback can have.
DAN DIERDORF

I thought to myself at least a couple of times after a hit, 'Boy, that's going to leave a mark. I'm ...
DAN DIERDORF

We wanted someone who was a real industry insider, someone who could hit the ground running without ...
DAN DIERDORF

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
DAN QUAYLE

My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put you...
DAN GABLE

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You ...
DAN MARINO

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
DAN QUAYLE

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so...
DAN RATHER

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has chang...
DAN RATHER

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We ar...
DAN QUAYLE

We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
DAN GABLE

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people ...
DAN PINK

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I&...
DAN WHELDON

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island'...
DAN SHECHTMAN

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be ...
DAN QUAYLE

Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
DAN KAMINSKY

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by t...
DAN JENKINS

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing m...
DAN JENKINS

Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest...
DAN JENKINS

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
DAN PHILLIPS

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star,...
DAN JENKINS

I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
DAN QUINN

I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
DAN GILBERT

I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is a...
DAN HILL

When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm ...
DAN HILL

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I do...
DAN HILL

When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen...
DAN HILL

Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of ...
DAN HILL

The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best w...
DAN HILL

My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
DAN HILL

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew ...
DAN HILL

I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy...
DAN HILL

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Fra...
DAN HILL

With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want hi...
DAN HILL

I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortab...
DAN HILL

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our we...
DAN HILL

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kan...
DAN HILL

When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop s...
DAN HILL

Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress i...
DAN HILL

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
DAN HILL

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a hou...
DAN HILL

If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilit...
DAN HILL

At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen i...
DAN HILL

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by...
DAN HILL

I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
DAN HILL

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
DAN HICKS

I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
DAN HICKS

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: t...
DAN HICKS

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
DAN HICKS

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises t...
DAN HICKS

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to ...
DAN HICKS

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labe...
DAN HICKS

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'...
DAN HICKS

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, an...
DAN HICKS

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stag...
DAN HICKS

There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the wor...
DAN HICKS

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time war...
DAN HICKS

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
DAN HICKS

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we ...
DAN HAWKINS

We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we'v...
DAN HAWKINS

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
DAN HAWKINS

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We&...
DAN HAWKINS

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone ...
DAN HAWKINS

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs la...
DAN HAWKINS

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set ...
DAN HAWKINS

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played ...
DAN HAWKINS

In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at ...
DAN HAWKINS

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
DAN HAWKINS

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the expos...
DAN HAWKINS

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypass...
DAN HAWKINS

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
DAN HAWKINS

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
DAN HAWKINS

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really ...
DAN HAWKINS

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
DAN HAWKINS

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
DAN HAWKINS

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd don...
DAN HAWKINS

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And vie...
DAN HARMON

Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels ...
DAN HARMON

My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franch...
DAN HARMON

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of...
DAN HARMON

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
DAN HARMON

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people...
DAN HARMON

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're i...
DAN HARMON

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa...
DAN HARMON

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our lo...
DAN HARMON

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist ...
DAN HARMON

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi ...
DAN HARMON

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w...
DAN HARMON

Maybe I am just a jerk.
DAN HARMON

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
DAN HARMON

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I'v...
DAN HARMON

Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decisio...
DAN HARMON

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing ...
DAN HARMON

There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
DAN HARMON

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
DAN HARMON

I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critic...
DAN HARMON

I really like performing for people.
DAN HARMON

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to...
DAN GLICKMAN

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with ...
DAN GLICKMAN

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and ...
DAN GLICKMAN

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
DAN GLICKMAN

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our i...
DAN GLICKMAN

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting so...
DAN GLICKMAN

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultiv...
DAN GLICKMAN

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
DAN GLICKMAN

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect int...
DAN GLICKMAN

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do i...
DAN GLICKMAN

Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Ever...
DAN GILROY

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films wh...
DAN GILROY

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world ...
DAN GILROY

'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses n...
DAN GILROY

I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of...
DAN GILROY

I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the moun...
DAN GILROY

When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using ...
DAN GILROY

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the f...
DAN GILROY

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole...
DAN GILROY

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen,...
DAN GILROY

I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael M...
DAN GILROY

I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up o...
DAN GILROY

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just ...
DAN GILROY

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
DAN GILROY

I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work...
DAN GILROY

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But...
DAN GILROY

There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don'...
DAN GILROY

The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ...
DAN GILROY

The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it...
DAN GILROY

Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make fil...
DAN GILROY

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or ...
DAN GILROY

I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with g...
DAN GILROY

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who un...
DAN GILROY

In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a ...
DAN GILROY

The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain...
DAN GILROY

I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
DAN GILBERT

The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful...
DAN GILBERT

We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is cons...
DAN GILBERT

One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and p...
DAN GILBERT

The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff o...
DAN GILBERT

I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
DAN GILBERT

Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did...
DAN GILBERT

A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. Bu...
DAN GILBERT

I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban a...
DAN GILBERT

A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not jus...
DAN GILBERT

StockX's live marketplace will harness the Internet's natural ability to facilitate a better...
DAN GILBERT

From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committ...
DAN GILBERT

First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one ba...
DAN GILBERT

If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us,...
DAN GILBERT

Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimi...
DAN GILBERT

When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can ...
DAN GILBERT

When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
DAN GILBERT

To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of t...
DAN GILBERT

It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That&...
DAN GILBERT

If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world aroun...
DAN GILBERT

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, ...
DAN GILBERT

There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up...
DAN GILBERT

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
DAN GILBERT

If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should appr...
DAN GERTLER

Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing w...
DAN GERTLER

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
DAN GERTLER

I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.
DAN GERTLER

That is what we know how to do better than anyone else: We know how to maximize value for our projec...
DAN GERTLER

Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
DAN GERTLER

Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't wa...
DAN GERTLER

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. W...
DAN GELBER

Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-d...
DAN GELBER

While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it...
DAN GELBER

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
DAN GELBER

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if y...
DAN GELBER

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politici...
DAN GELBER

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense bec...
DAN GELBER

I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
DAN GABLE

When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
DAN GABLE

I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if o...
DAN GABLE

My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad...
DAN GABLE

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
DAN GABLE

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that ...
DAN GABLE

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
DAN GABLE

There's nothing like success.
DAN GABLE

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be s...
DAN GABLE

My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
DAN GABLE

I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
DAN GABLE

My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
DAN GABLE

I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestlin...
DAN GABLE

I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to w...
DAN GABLE

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
DAN GABLE

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself...
DAN GABLE

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
DAN GABLE

Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
DAN GABLE

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But...
DAN GABLE

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. Th...
DAN GABLE

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
DAN GABLE

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN

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