It spelled out the truth, and lots of times people don't want to look at that. At first, I thought, 'Wow! This guy's trying to come off as arrogant. He made it, and he's saying that not one of them will get that far.' They all dream of playing Division I college sports, but that bubble might have been burst. It brought things back to reality.
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JEFF ACKERMANN People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester Uni... CRISTIANO RONALDO I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the wo... CHARLES SAATCHI It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are pe... HANNAH HARRINGTON It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'... ALAN ALDA I do believe the shelters are all closed at this time and they are trying to get people back into th... JENNY LEHMAN I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without a... JACOB RIIS When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out. IO SAKISAKA I thought it was going to be right at him at first, then I turned and it was going toward the gap. H... BRAD HENNESSEY Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 When I trouble myse... GEORGE MACDONALD I'm just shocked and thankful that I've gotten away with everything - experimenting here, tr... MICHAEL KEATON I didn't feel comfortable taking the things that people were dropping off, but the people at Crossro... CELESTE ARNOLD I thought there was a combination of reasons we were able to run the ball well. I think first of all... FRANK SOLICH Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as qui... KAPIL SIBAL There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember a... HENRY BROMEL They might not get in as early as they thought they would. I think that the numbers are tainted. You... ANDRE DAWSON It was fun to get to play with all these guys after playing against them my whole high school career... ZAC DAVIS I think a lot of the athletes here will walk by and laugh at us, but that just makes me want them to... 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BETHANY HAMILTON Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy. BETHANY HAMILTON Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short! BETHANY HAMILTON Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are! BETHANY HAMILTON Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may ha... ALEXANDER HAMILTON Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be... ALEXANDER HAMILTON The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ... ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude. NIGEL HAMILTON I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy year... NIGEL HAMILTON I belong to the Boston Biographers Group - and get my monthly 'fix' from them. Where else ca... NIGEL HAMILTON Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our s... NIGEL HAMILTON Both JFK and George W. Bush were the sons of wealthy U.S. ambassadors and thus privileged to meet di... NIGEL HAMILTON I'm fascinated by the concept of what I call 'clusters of creativity': the Brontes, the ... NIGEL HAMILTON I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American po... NIGEL HAMILTON I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Ceza... NIGEL HAMILTON To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin... NIGEL HAMILTON Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focu... NIGEL HAMILTON President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval g... NIGEL HAMILTON In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I ... NIGEL HAMILTON Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence. NIGEL HAMILTON Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' pre... NIGEL HAMILTON My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after t... NIGEL HAMILTON It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned ... NIGEL HAMILTON I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might! NIGEL HAMILTON Some of the History Channel's documentaries involve docudrama segments and are highly speculativ... NIGEL HAMILTON Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency... NIGEL HAMILTON Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation t... NIGEL HAMILTON Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passi... ALEXANDER HAMILTON A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u... ALEXANDER HAMILTON Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude i... BETHANY HAMILTON Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquill... ALEXANDER HAMILTON The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. ALEXANDER HAMILTON It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta... ALEXANDER HAMILTON