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I enjoy coming to practice everyday with these guys. When together they can act pretty foolish, but they go at it when it's time to get to work.


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I miss the racing and I really enjoy coming out to work with the guys when I can.
DAN BROWN Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
KATEE SACKHOFF The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without delibera...
EDMUND BURKE I think that's a credit to the guys. They can go. They can play. If they just continue to execute an...
DAVID MCLAUGHLIN When these guys are over there, they don't have any place to spend their money. And they get combat ...
BRUCE GOMBAR If you can get away with it, go for it. We were short-cutting a lot of times and our guys were comin...
MIKE DUNLEAVY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Some guys practice pretty good and then they get in a game and they're a different person. These guy...
BOBBY BOWDEN These guys work pretty hard, so if they need to take a break we let them take a break, especially th...
DAVID BERRY We'll work on that next time. I just went out there and played hard. When you play with these guys, ...
LUKE ZELLER Every year, I've been pretty blessed, but I have not yet not enjoyed coaching these kids. I enjoy co...
MARK DEAUGUSTINO It's good for us to get a rhythm and stay with the guys we have and understand that these are the gu...
STEPHEN JACKSON When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding pr...
LAYTON ALIVIADO He's pushing the envelope, ... All these guys when they turn 30 can say, 'I can work hard and still ...
BRAD GILBERT We work on upper body strength, balance, coordination and following directions, ... These kids are d...
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DANIEL MELGAçO Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important el...
GRETCHEN RUBIN We have a good group of guys that when they get rolling, they can really swing it. It is a core of s...
DAN MEDINA This was the second injury we've had where these guys have (come) together and came back and won. Th...
GREG OVERSTREET The young guys, they're excited because it's new to them, ... If you have a bunch of guys that are o...
ADAM ROBERTS I get bored because of so much work. But I enjoy seeing people smile when they see the lights and th...
AL GASKIN I get bored because of so much work. But I enjoy seeing people smile when they see the lights and th...
AL GASKIN People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward...
ELON MUSK I looked in these guys' eyes and they are ready to go and get it done.
DENNIS ERICKSON They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they ge...
JOHN WILLIAM MCCORMACK I think they all realize they are a pretty good team. But they still come to practice ready to work....
MARK LOCKOWITZ The guys know they have to be going when they're out there and if you work like that, sometimes you ...
DALE HUNTER I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty...
COLIN QUINN When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We're learning some things about ourselves being steady down the stretch. You know me, I try to just...
RAY ALLEN I think so. They really wanted it. I don't think it was pride. They don't want to let it go. We migh...
BILLY THORNHILL These kids went 18-0 as eighth-graders at Merritt Middle School when I came back to Indianola. That ...
CHARLES COLE If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are...
AHMED ALI ANJUM Both of these guys are the same type of receivers as the UNI receivers are. They're not the most phy...
JOVON JOHNSON Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly com...
CARRIE FISHER Most of the time when these things go public...private-equity firms want to get the hell out of ther...
JAY W. LORSCH I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just ...
ANDREW BOGUT I still really enjoy seeing the highlight when they show it this time of year. To see it all happen ...
BRYCE DREW I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic...
AGNETHA FALTSKOG Every Tuesday, I know where I am going after practice. I am going to go over here and spend some tim...
CRAIG RASMUSON I was pretty mad when it happened, because I had really improved my game. But it was a blessing now,...
JACOB HAZOURI When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, whe...
CHARLES B. RANGEL We're hoping to win league and get past the first round of the playoffs because we've never done tha...
MATT HILTON “Many women's goal is to be the center of attention, when they get fame and catch men eyes its whe...
JOANNA AJ It's good to get key hits at key times. I still believed in these guys when they weren't hitting the...
DENNIS RINE No question, these guys work hard every day in practice. They understand how I operate and how I wor...
ALEX BUTLER How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER It's a nice thing when the two groups kind of work together, the school board and county commission....
GORDON WARDELL I was excited to get both those guys down there, but both of them when they came off the mat said th...
STEVE ECKERT Those guys got a chance to see us perform. They get a chance to practice, practice, practice.
ERIC HENDERSON They work together to chase monkeys, and they're quite effective when they chase them together.
BRIAN HARE Our population is growing, and we have a lot of doctors in Arizona. But they tend to practice urban....
ALISON HUGHES He's day-to-day and hopefully we get him back soon. I had faith in these guys coming in that they wo...
JEFF BAMBULE After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew eve...
JOE AIELLO The Aussie Vineyards car was really strong in the final short practice before qualifying -- it was g...
ALEX TAGLIANI This team is really intriguing. When they play well they are almost unbeatable. The biggest thing I ...
BOBBY CREMINS I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!
YURI LOWENTHAL It's good for me, ... You get in a rut playing with the same guys. It's fun to get out there with gu...
DAVE STOCKTON When practice comes, they both come every day to play and work at getting better. When you're a star...
DERRICK BURGESS Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER These guys get it when it comes to talking about pornography in a way people can relate to,
BILL HYBELS No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don'...
FRANK ROBINSON Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh...
DOROTHY B. HUGHES It saddens me that the team was broken up like it was. I understand where [the owners] were coming f...
JEFF CONINE When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
KENNETH H. BLANCHARD When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
BETTY BENDER It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, ...
GORAN IVANISEVIC It's really fun to work with these people. They have a strong can-do attitude. When they have moment...
GREG MOYER I don't really feel like there are mismatches in this league, especially when you're on the road. We...
LARRY KRYSTKOWIAK There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start...
AL MADRIGAL I'd like to have a good week in practice, when we have everybody back. I feel we can compete with th...
GREG BROCHETTI Can you explain something to me? ... When these guys had some money, how come they couldn't pay to g...
FUNKMASTER FLEX It's great to know when you work so hard at something that now you can enjoy it.
ALI DELUCA I get bored because of so much work. But I enjoy seeing people smile when they see the lights and th...
AL GASKIN People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, p...
WILL CARLING We don't really get together and practice anymore. They know it and are used to singing it together.
JOANN COUTON I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the...
GORDON RAMSAY Traveling comes with its positives and its negatives. I think we are more focused when we travel. It...
CHARLIE KENDRICK I'm really proud of my guys. They earned it, they played with heart and conviction. They listened. T...
TROY DAYAK You know a lot of times wrestlers get too full of themselves. They can't separate themselves fro...
HULK HOGAN When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped out...
EMILY WATSON When I was deciding whether to come back, I asked Deron [Williams] and Luther [Head] what I should d...
DEE BROWN Strangers can be consequential when you want to practice an atrophied or unexplored facet of you, as...
KARE ANDERSON I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about pr...
LAWRENCE TIMMONS They enjoy this. I don't know what it is, but many inmates love to work with animals,
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LIN STADLER We have a lot of young guys who are inconsistent with their performances -- you just never know some...
MARK MANNING It was the first time I've ever thrown meat to a tiger. It was pretty cool. These are the little per...
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"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

He slung his M16 onto his bac...
RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"

Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
RICK RIORDAN The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesita...
RICK RIORDAN As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to ...
RICK RIORDAN It's just Annabeth mom jeez!
RICK RIORDAN Хей! - извика Гроувър. - Тя май припадна!
- Гррр! - обади...
RICK RIORDAN Той ме погледна тъжно, сякаш мислеше какви цветя да изб...
RICK RIORDAN Синдром на Дефицит на Вниманието (СДВ)
RICK RIORDAN You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.
RICK RIORDAN then things got even stranger.
Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute befo...
RICK RIORDAN There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties...
RICK RIORDAN Apollo?” I guessed…
He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”
...
RICK RIORDAN Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an ey...
RICK RIORDAN