Jerry Rice quote: "I wanted to earn my position. I didn't want to have anything given to me. I came in here and competed, but those guys are playing well right now."

The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I ...
JERRY RICE

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I ...
JERRY RICE

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played th...
JERRY RICE

I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - j...
JERRY RICE

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It&#...
JERRY RICE

You don't want to put all your cards on the table, ... We came in and took them by surprise. [The St...
JERRY RICE

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest play...
JERRY RICE

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through t...
JERRY RICE

I felt like a rock star.
JERRY RICE

People today are always on their cell phones, so I thought why not reach my fans this way. I will es...
JERRY RICE

I think Jerry can still contribute, but it's got to be in the right situation.
JERRY RICE

I think it was the right thing. I know how hard this was for him. He would like to play until he was...
JERRY RICE

That's it for me. I'm done and I'm looking forward to the next phase in my life now.
JERRY RICE

He's in another world right now. He's in that zone. He's seeing the field so well, he's not making m...
JERRY RICE

People are on to us right now. They're got our number. We have to regroup and start doing something ...
JERRY RICE

I'm working more now than when I played football. It feels right.
JERRY RICE

I am very glad that I decided to take a chance.
JERRY RICE

I'm very happy I decided to take the chance.
JERRY RICE

I never thought I would see this day. But it's here now and I feel pretty good about it.
JERRY RICE

If you have a chance, that's all you want. And I feel we have a chance.
JERRY RICE

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He g...
JERRY RICE

I think what you saw out there on the football field was an individual who really just loved the gam...
JERRY RICE

This is a happy day for me. I think the tears that you see basically is that I have really enjoyed t...
JERRY RICE

Over the years, probably since I left San Francisco (in 2000), this is one of my best camps. I know ...
JERRY RICE

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't
JERRY RICE

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I fel...
JERRY RICE

Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you...
JERRY RICE

I felt I came in and gave it my best shot and I still wanted to play. It didn't happen. I am still g...
JERRY RICE

I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual. I've grown o...
JERRY RICE

I'm just going to take it and try to make the best of it. I've got to show them I can handle what th...
JERRY RICE

I pretty much approach every season never thinking about what I accomplished the year before.
JERRY RICE

When you begin to lose the fire a little bit and if you're not giving 100 percent out there, then it...
JERRY RICE

The one thing about T.O. is that T.O. is very defensive,
JERRY RICE

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as the...
JERRY RICE

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, ... it was about the way I playe...
JERRY RICE

I never thought I'd ever see this day.
JERRY RICE

I just told him, 'Hey, you've got to let it go. He's a hard worker and I think he wants success, but...
JERRY RICE

It's a really good thing they're having this for free, especially for guys like me who don't have he...
JERRY RICE

I think everybody knew he was going to be special, but we didn't know when. Just like Joe had a pres...
JERRY RICE

I knew I was clumsy.
JERRY RICE

My hat goes off to Drew and Cheryl. It's well-deserved.
JERRY RICE

You don't want to put all your cards on the table. We came in and took them by surprise. [The Steele...
JERRY RICE

I'm out the door. I'm on that team. Without a doubt.
JERRY RICE

Mistakes are killing us right now.
JERRY RICE

To me, it was never about what I accomplished on the football field. It was about the way I played t...
JERRY RICE

What you saw out there on the football field was an individual who loved the game.
JERRY RICE

I'm in it to win.
JERRY RICE

If he feels like you've crossed him or something like that ? that you've stabbed him in the back ? h...
JERRY RICE

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the b...
JERRY RICE

Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family ...
LUANNE RICE

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic contex...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to b...
ANNE RICE

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement...
GRANTLAND RICE

We need a common enemy to unite us.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for ...
GRANTLAND RICE

I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ...
ANNE RICE

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
ANNE RICE

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to expre...
DAMIEN RICE

Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and ...
DAMIEN RICE

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying...
DAMIEN RICE

I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the...
DAMIEN RICE

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and th...
DAMIEN RICE

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate v...
DAMIEN RICE

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to...
DAMIEN RICE

There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on i...
DAMIEN RICE

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that...
DAMIEN RICE

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or gro...
DAMIEN RICE

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don...
DAMIEN RICE

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are ch...
DAMIEN RICE

I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
DAMIEN RICE

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
DAMIEN RICE

Everyone is capable of everything.
DAMIEN RICE

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa...
DAMIEN RICE

Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able t...
DAMIEN RICE

The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zo...
DAMIEN RICE

When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the wr...
DAMIEN RICE

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't f...
DAMIEN RICE

I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is con...
DAMIEN RICE

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be ...
DAMIEN RICE

I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see any...
DAMIEN RICE

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
DAMIEN RICE

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto o...
DAMIEN RICE

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortab...
DAMIEN RICE

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .
ANNE RICE

Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no re...
ANNE RICE

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.
ANNE RICE

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw...
ANNE RICE

But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tang...
ANNE RICE

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know w...
ANNE RICE

During this crisis you failed us
ANNE RICE

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--...
GRANTLAND RICE

I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on ...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...
ANNE RICE

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
ANNE RICE

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...
ANNE RICE

A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
ANNE RICE

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and...
ANNE RICE

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection...
ANNE RICE

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,
He writes -- not that you won or...
GRANTLAND RICE

Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
ANNE RICE

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE

What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a ...
ANNE RICE

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the...
ANNE RICE

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk aroun...
DAN RICE

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
ANNE RICE

For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or...
GRANTLAND RICE

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr...
SUSAN RICE

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE

I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instan...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you ...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no...
ANNE RICE

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the q...
ANNE RICE

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Fran...
LUANNE RICE

My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him ...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United ...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire ...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the cont...
ANNE RICE

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion ...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
GRANTLAND RICE

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
DONNA RICE

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass...
ANNE RICE

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very c...
ANNE RICE

I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.
BOYD RICE

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a cat...
ANNE RICE

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats ...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty p...
DONNA RICE

'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those...
LUANNE RICE

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actual...
ANNE RICE

The judges were very conscious of the role that awards such as Apex play in raising professional com...
ANDY RICE

I like our depth in the pitching department. We need to find a couple more offensive players. Defens...
ANDY RICE

I think anybody in America needs to do whatever they can. A lot of people lost everything they own.
ANDY RICE

It's a lot easier and everything is in one place.
ANDY RICE

I think all states really need to examine what they're doing and with what types of offenses,
ANN RICE

It is surprising and it is dismaying when any of this happens regardless if its one or whatever time...
ANN RICE

What a rare opportunity you have given the members of this committee, ... We will do our best to ful...
ANN RICE

Right now the critical shortage areas, and last year, are in special education. That's our biggest -...
ANN RICE

Whenever you hire anyone whose going to have access to children, you need to know what their crimina...
ANN RICE

It's one of our top priorities for the coming year and probably many years after that.
ANN RICE

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - t...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and f...
ANNE RICE

Our purpose is to help the disabled lead a productive life.
AMY RICE

Winners will be announced during the (Dickens' musical). We're also selling buttons with each child'...
AMY RICE

I'll be (at the office) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.
AMY RICE

The Prince and Princess of Dickens contest has been extended through the end of September. We curren...
AMY RICE

A great bunch of friends came down. We all looked through the night, searching for her.
AMY RICE

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to ...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young ...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficul...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, ...
DONNA RICE

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
ANNE RICE

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 yea...
SUSAN RICE

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenti...
ANNE RICE

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
ANNE RICE

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on th...
ANNE RICE

One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbre...
LUANNE RICE

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of s...
LUANNE RICE

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free market...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the pr...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
ANNE RICE

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.
ANNE RICE

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read th...
ANNE RICE

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give ...
ANNE RICE

You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence...
ANNE RICE

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
ANNE RICE

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy b...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an Ameri...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorbl...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law C...
LUANNE RICE

There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE

I still think that we're a playoff team that can go deep. I still think that we're a team in Distric...
CALVIN RICE

They set the tempo. We couldn't get into our transition and the key to us winning is being able to g...
CALVIN RICE

We just had to keep fighting through and do what we were doing. It was just a great game, it's a goo...
CALVIN RICE

No doubt, defense was key down the stretch. I tell you what, Noah Cole is a talented, gutsy young ma...
CALVIN RICE

Jeff has good hands and good feet.
BRYAN RICE

Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.
TIM RICE

He's a handsome colt with a great temperament. We had him about seven months and he really handled h...
BRYAN RICE

Jeff is consistent every year. He's a big kid, but he's got a lot of patience.
BRYAN RICE

Those are two real good teams.
BRYAN RICE

I don't know (how good this team is) until we get into league play.
BRYAN RICE

He has a great pedigree and presented himself well at the track. We hoped he would garner something ...
BRYAN RICE

A lot of these guys weren't around last year. I try to keep them from getting too big-headed and sta...
BRYAN RICE

It needs to happen. Even if we are the dominant one right now, it can switch back in any direction. ...
BUDDY RICE

We all know what we're doing when we go out there.
BUDDY RICE

It's great to finally have a full-blown solid weekend. The pit stops were excellent like always. The...
BUDDY RICE

I don't see them coming back together anytime soon. A bunch of people have tried to do it and it has...
BUDDY RICE

Dario had the most dominant car, but they made a mistake in the pits and he didn't win it. Danny had...
BUDDY RICE

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down...
BUDDY RICE

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
BUDDY RICE

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.
BUDDY RICE

I wanted to earn my position. I didn't want to have anything given to me. I came in here and competed, but those guys are playing well right now.

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I wanted to earn my position. I didn't want to have anything given to me. I came in here and competed, but those guys are playing well right now.

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