Lance Thompson quote: "If I know who I'm batting after, who's batting before me, I can better prepare for what I'm going to need to do or what's going to be expected of me in my at bat."

Just to get that hit, it felt great.
LANCE THOMPSON

I thought it was a smart idea. [Wine] was even thinking of just flipping the whole lineup. He was ju...
LANCE THOMPSON

If we had lost this game, it would've been really bad, not only for us, but for our coaches. I don't...
LANCE THOMPSON

I don't know what happened the last games. I don't know if we were tired or what.
LANCE THOMPSON

My pay cut revolved a fair bit around staying at the club for another couple of years and the job di...
LANCE THOMPSON

Absolutely not. We are committed to being in this business. We feel fortunate to be in this business...
LANCE THOMPSON

Just to be mentioned in the same breath as some of the past winners is amazing. We think this is jus...
LANCE THOMPSON

I don't know that we've ever brought in four tackles of that size in one class, even when we were at...
LANCE THOMPSON

Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and...
LANCE SECRETAN

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration ...
LANCE SECRETAN

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers ...
LANCE SECRETAN

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range o...
LANCE REDDICK

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
LANCE REDDICK

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's...
LANCE REDDICK

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
LANCE REDDICK

Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
LANCE REDDICK

I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that...
LANCE REDDICK

As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opport...
LANCE REDDICK

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
LANCE REDDICK

You either get better, or you don't progress.
LANCE REDDICK

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
LANCE REDDICK

When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was ...
LANCE REDDICK

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it cre...
LANCE REDDICK

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
LANCE REDDICK

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
LANCE REDDICK

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
LANCE REDDICK

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was l...
LANCE REDDICK

I'm an artist at heart.
LANCE REDDICK

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
LANCE REDDICK

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically...
LANCE REDDICK

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
LANCE REDDICK

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easie...
LANCE REDDICK

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
LANCE REDDICK

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
LANCE MORROW

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centu...
LANCE MORROW

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
LANCE MORROW

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
LANCE MORROW

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and ge...
LANCE LOUD

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
LANCE LOUD

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
LANCE LOUD

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
LANCE LOUD

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
LANCE LOUD

David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
LANCE LOUD

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
LANCE LOUD

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotio...
LANCE LOUD

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides ...
LANCE LOUD

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social orde...
LANCE LOUD

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
LANCE LOUD

I believed I was invincible.
LANCE LOUD

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visit...
LANCE LOUD

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
LANCE LOUD

Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a pe...
LANCE LOUD

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
LANCE LOUD

The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I bec...
LANCE LOUD

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make ...
LANCE LOUD

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom tha...
LANCE LOUD

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock...
LANCE LOUD

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the cult...
LANCE LOUD

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
LANCE LOUD

I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I&#...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.
LANCE HENRIKSEN

One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I go...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

I've always liked SyFy.
LANCE HENRIKSEN

I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like t...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you c...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I'...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
LANCE HENRIKSEN

What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-bu...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest ...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
LANCE HENRIKSEN

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No wa...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me....
LANCE HENRIKSEN

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career orient...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
LANCE HENRIKSEN

In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we rememb...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
LANCE HENRIKSEN

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't res...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
LANCE HENRIKSEN

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It'...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on...
LANCE GROSS

I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's i...
LANCE GROSS

Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it se...
LANCE GROSS

I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It does...
LANCE GROSS

I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm com...
LANCE GROSS

I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other fil...
LANCE GROSS

I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an o...
LANCE GROSS

My parents always taught me never to take anything for granted because it can be taken away from you...
LANCE GROSS

I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes tha...
LANCE GROSS

It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, s...
LANCE GROSS

I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
LANCE GROSS

I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
LANCE GROSS

For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
LANCE GROSS

I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being...
LANCE GROSS

I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror t...
LANCE GROSS

I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and Go...
LANCE GROSS

It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some...
LANCE GROSS

If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've...
LANCE GROSS

I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be g...
LANCE GROSS

It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with ne...
LANCE GROSS

It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a life...
LANCE BURTON

I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything i...
LANCE BURTON

I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
LANCE BURTON

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employe...
LANCE BURTON

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else...
LANCE BURTON

That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine...
LANCE BURTON

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lo...
LANCE BURTON

I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
LANCE BURTON

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pa...
LANCE BURTON

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that...
LANCE BURTON

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing...
LANCE BURTON

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic b...
LANCE BURTON

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hell...
LANCE BURTON

I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
LANCE BASS

It's nice not to have to live a double life.
LANCE BASS

I was always the Southern gentleman.
LANCE BASS

I'm used to people talking about me.
LANCE BASS

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love...
LANCE BASS

Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
LANCE BASS

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going t...
LANCE BASS

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incre...
LANCE BASS

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musici...
LANCE BASS

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
LANCE BASS

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, ...
LANCE BASS

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, th...
LANCE BASS

There are so many kids out there that need to be adopted and need good homes. I definitely want to h...
LANCE BASS

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that ...
LANCE BASS

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
LANCE BASS

I've always dreamed of having a large family.
LANCE BASS

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I gr...
LANCE BASS

I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to ...
LANCE BASS

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you fig...
LANCE BASS

He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
LANCE BASS

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have...
LANCE BASS

I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where...
LANCE BASS

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group o...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you he...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exerci...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension,...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I still don't get golf.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, wh...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I think it's better we downplay our chances. I think we should cherish this role as the underdog, be...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's Octo...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It's a strange climb ... long but not very steep, so you can keep 30, 40, 50 guys, and they can take...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It was a great day, especially with the weather. First the heat, then the thunder, then the sun agai...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

But if you ride your bike a mile away, she is not gonna find you.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. O...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I started fast and hard, it was difficult with a hard climb and long downhill with headwind. It was ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassin...
LANCE MORROW

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companion...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Pride follows many paths, speaks in many voices and comes in many forms...
Some stranger than oth...
LANCE RUND

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I ha...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

The biggest problem with politics or running for the governor
LANCE ARMSTRONG

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choos...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more pur...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and figh...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from th...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and bo...
LANCE MORROW

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneou...
LANCE MORROW

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will sub...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may ...
LANCE MORROW

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.
LANCE MORROW

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
LANCE MORROW

For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncarin...
LANCE LOUD

I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first a...
LANCE GROSS

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I f...
LANCE BASS

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence...
LANCE LOUD

I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.
LANCE BASS

I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'...
LANCE GROSS

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
LANCE BASS

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murde...
LANCE MORROW

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may a...
LANCE MORROW

If I know who I'm batting after, who's batting before me, I can better prepare for what I'm going to need to do or what's going to be expected of me in my at bat.

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