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Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.


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BILLY DAVIS I go through it with a fine-toothed comb. It's like slicing and dicing all different ways and runnin...
BRUCE SAUTER Cool. I need a big-time running back!
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KENNY ANDERSON I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake ...
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JACK KEROUAC Our running backs coach just wanted to go a different route. I can't explain it to you, so I won't e...
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ANDY REID After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew eve...
JOE AIELLO I didn't feel as if they always had me [as] part of their plans. It was like I was back on the back ...
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JEFF MATTHEWS I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.
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TOM ALBERTRANI They were very eager to be back at school, ... Im sure they were a little anxious because they were ...
ALTON JOHNSON We fixed it. It was up and running. Now it's back down again.
JOSE NAZARIO I remember people running off to their hotel rooms to read manuscripts, and running back to bid on t...
JANE FRIEDMAN It wasn't too much different [except] this time it was a lot better to come back - I had a wife to c...
MATT CLARK Usually, when I get a guy down 0-2, I can put him away. But my cutter was running back over and they...
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SHANE PATRICK They look at me as an individual player. What am I doing on a run play? Am I blocking for the runnin...
COREY JACKSON I thought she had caught it and then I looked back at her and saw she was going to throw it to first...
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HARRY HAWKINS Don't run away.
Im not running away. Im already gone.
-Lena and Ethan
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ANTHONY JACKSON Max really liked Virginia because they were the first to recruit him, the first to offer him [a scho...
DON HANSEN Running back was always my favorite position.
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DAVID BENNETT After three weeks in a cast he was back running stairs and after 10 weeks he was back in a cast,
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CHRIS NOTH That's just something we do every day in practice. We go hard and somebody's going to fall. You just...
HILTON ARMSTRONG I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, witho...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It was very exciting for us. I get one more crack at it. That's what we play for. I just wanted a ch...
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IAN LAPERRIERE It was as if all my life had been spent fighting, killing and running. I wanted peace but I knew it ...
FREDRIK NATH Every time I looked in the gym there was Sonny running or Sonny shooting. I saw his dedication, desi...
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SHAVO ODADJIAN I enjoy coming back to the city and back to the arena and play against the guys I know. I definitely...
BORIS DIAW It's going to be a thrill for everyone to see him back on the ice. It will bring back all the great ...
ADAM GRAVES He wanted to run track last year I think. When he came back to school about six weeks after the acci...
DAN HARRIS We had a great week of practice and the kids came out and really played hard. It was nice to get the...
BRENT WARD I don't know how you prepare for him. You have to pay notice to what he is. The game plan is differe...
ADRIAN PETERSON He's poised and calm. He's running the ball, passing it. He's a threat out there. It opens things up...
CEDRIC HUMES Im a trackstar running thru life, chasing my dream.
50 CENT He's a good running back; he's fast. He broke a couple of my tackles. So yeah, he's a good running b...
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SALLY PHILLIPS I would always play the striker, so I would be running down the field back and forth almost the enti...
BRAD BOYER Yeah, it surprised them a little. That's part of the scheme, there is an option on every play for ev...
DANIEL FULLER We had them just where we wanted them. We wanted them running and wanted to get them in that game. T...
BRAD PODEVELS Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nat...
AL MICHAELS I doubled in the mile and two-mile as a farewell. It was my last time running here, so I wanted to r...
JEFF PERRELLA We'll get it back up and running as fast as possible.
DENNIS DUDLEY Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES They came running back saying they needed a net because they saw an alligator. I thought they were s...
BILL CHASE a while back. There were enough compressors running, but the load was more than they could handle.
DAVID JACOBS They prevent you from running your style of offense. We had to kind of scrap our main offense and ju...
JOE MILES I was surprised at how far back he was. I would have liked to have been a lot closer, but they were ...
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GEORGE THIRSK He had never played running back before, and tonight was really the first game he was reading blocks...
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SAM HEUGHAN Just to come back is fantastic, ... The back is fine and tomorrow I hope to have a better start and ...
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BRAD WOOD I guess it turned out that he didn't have one. But as I was running out, I felt my body tighten up. ...
CHARLES PARKER I was just running as hard as I could, wanting to make them make a play, and the next thing you know...
DAVE ROBERTS I just can't do any running, I can't do any banging around. I think it'll be an easy transition when...
LARRY BIGBIE The U.S. is spending a lot of money getting these rigs back up and running. We could see prices pull...
ASHOK SEKAR I wanted to come back, ... That's what's disappointing - I missed out on a pretty good opportunity (...
BEN STEELE They throw a lot to open up the run. They do it opposite sometimes. We know Corey Dillon's a great r...
JAMES FARRIOR Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.
RYAN LILLY It was fun. It was just running on instinct. Everybody out there could play.
AMIR JOHNSON I do think you have to have a great receiver and a great running back, ... But really every position...
TROY AIKMAN I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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JOHN C. CALHOUN War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary;...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prospe...
JOHN C. CALHOUN A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and va...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, consti...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the Br...
JOHN C. CALHOUN In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's ...
ADELE AHLBERG CALHOUN Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
JOHN C. CALHOUN It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
JOHN C. CALHOUN It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confid...
JOHN C. CALHOUN It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spr...
JOHN C. CALHOUN True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and n...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country...
JOHN C. CALHOUN He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Unio...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to est...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never confe...
JOHN C. CALHOUN When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant a...
JOHN C. CALHOUN With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without th...
JOHN C. CALHOUN We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.
JOHN C. CALHOUN In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the...
JOHN C. CALHOUN A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. Bu...
JOHN C. CALHOUN So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in actio...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole...
JOHN C. CALHOUN We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slave...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Darwin’s folly was barking up the wrong tree.
BRIAN Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie,
BRIAN