I haven't found that many differences playing in America as opposed to playing in Europe. In my eyes, there are slightly bigger crowds in America. The depth of players is slightly stronger in America, and that really is about it.
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Related In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo... TONI MORRISON So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your ... SUN YUNG SHIN Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very... DOUGLAS SIRK Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER I haven't ruled out playing in America, STEPHEN HENDRY This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a... WERLEY NORTREUS I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries ... JOHN RHYS-DAVIES I do miss playing football, but I'm playing in one of the best programs in America, and it can't be ... GREG PAULUS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING North America was stronger than I was anticipating in terms of bookings growth. While the reported r... ERIK SUPPIGER There are those on the coasts that might snicker in their sleeves, but the town represents what many... ROBERT SCHMUHL Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr... GARY F EVANS... When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South A... MALCOLM X The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a... VANCE PALMER Me, shooting smut in the back of a speeding van with two white girls--bald cunts, panties around the... TYLER KNIGHT Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others. CARLOS WALLACE They might creep slightly above breakeven in 2007, still with losses in North America, but smaller t... DAVE HEALY There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this ... AJAY NAIDU I want to look happily forward. I want to be optimistic. I want to have a dream. I want to live in j... EDWIDGE DANTICAT Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had... CHRISTINA ENGELA My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of ... ELAYNE BOOSLER We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in... MITT ROMNEY It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protes... CARLOS WALLACE Dow may be the only college basketball coach in America whose players are sometimes prohibited from ... BILL PLASCHKE For Nation States, and the adversaries within America's boarders (special interest groups, cyber cal... AMERICA I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for t... DANA SNYDER This song is the last song we're playing in America, but we'll be back. BRANDON FLOWERS It is time to show the whole world that America is back - bigger and better and stronger than ever b... DONALD TRUMP It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. HEDY LAMARR I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. Am... THERESA REBECK America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation. BILL PLYMPTON There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Eur... FEDERICA MOGHERINI Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s. Trump... CHARLES M. BLOW Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. GIOVANNI AGNELLI There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ALEXIS TOCQUEVILLE Like many American kids, he wants to stay in America. But he knows this is a business. If the opport... CALVIN ANDREWS Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that c... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Belize: Hell or heaven? [Roy indicates "Heaven" through a glance] Belize: Lik... TONY KUSHNER It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes. AULIQ ICE Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I... SENATOR JOHN KERRY There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun v... TERRY MCAULIFFE Republican candidates who appeal to prejudice and are recently calling some parts of America the “... KRISTAN PETERS-HAMLIN There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. WILLIAM J. CLINTON There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with
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Alice Kingsley: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll te... ALICE IN WONDERLAND Walter: Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it. SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Alice falls down the rabbit hole and her dress poofs up like a parachute] Alice: Well, after this I ... ALICE IN WONDERLAND I've probably gone as far as I can with that particular genre, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Sometimes, I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ALICE IN WONDERLAND "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because ever... ALICE IN WONDERLAND Lawyers have an old saying: If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your si... - LAWYERS (IN GENERAL...) Spin City. ALICE IN WONDERLAND You mean you ca'n't take *less*. It's very easy to take *more* than nothing. ALICE IN WONDERLAND Gosh, you were so good. Maybe Bill (Clinton) could take a couple of days off, and you could fill in ... SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE I don't even know him...I'm harvesting all these fantasies about some man I've never even met...who ... SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Sam Baldwin: [looking at a photograph] She looks like my third grade teacher, and I hated my third g... SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE [Montana wheat variety yield increases give Montana farmers more wheat to sell, but the situation re... ALICE IN WONDERLAND Definitions vary,In Government it depends on which agency you go to. They all get to re-invent their... HOMELESS IN FAIRFAX A girl as small as a violet, a girl who moves like a flower petal – is pulling me toward her with ... KIM IN YOOK There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the coun... FRANK B. KELLOGG Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i... JOHN WATERS Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. JAMES HOLT MCGAVRAN
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