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Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you...
PETE ROZELLE People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don'...
PETE ROZELLE Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them...
PETE ROZELLE I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of t...
PETE ROZELLE Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and interna...
PETE ROZELLE At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line ...
PETE ROZELLE Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.
PETE HAMILL

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
PETE SEEGER

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn'...
PETE TOWNSHEND It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but...
PETE BURNS

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for...
PETE TOWNSHEND It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thin...
PETE BURNS One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M....
PETE HAMILL I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small villag...
PETE BURNS

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation jus...
PETE CARROLL

When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to str...
PETE MARAVICH

I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a co...
PETE ROSE

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?
PETE ROSE

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat...
PETE SEEGER

Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.
PETE GALLEGO

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.
PETE WENTZ Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely movi...
PETE DOMENICI I have regular peels and Botox. It's something I'll always do. People redecorate their homes...
PETE BURNS

We're waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on singing about an incident in whic...
PETE SEEGER

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine pri...
PETE SEEGER

Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you get when you don't.
PETE SEEGER

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't hav...
PETE ROSE

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practic...
PETE ROSE

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewis...
PETE SEEGER If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, futur...
PETE SERMOND

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and ...
PETE SAMPRAS

See the ball; hit the ball.
PETE ROSE

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis mat...
PETE SAMPRAS

Never bet on baseball.
PETE ROSE

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells....
PETE SEEGER

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually strug...
PETE HOLIDAY

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
PETE ROSE

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to ha...
PETE SEEGER

It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even ...
PETE GALLEGO

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required ...
PETE STARK

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the ...
PETE TOWNSHEND

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad...
PETE SEEGER Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of...
PETE HAMILL

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportu...
PETE HEGSETH

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization again...
PETE HEGSETH

Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washingto...
PETE HEGSETH

The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity undersc...
PETE HEGSETH

As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to ...
PETE HEGSETH

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
PETE HEGSETH

Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the sha...
PETE HEGSETH

Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both...
PETE HEGSETH

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted...
PETE HEGSETH

Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt ...
PETE DAVIDSON

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.
PETE HEGSETH

Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that m...
PETE HEGSETH

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under ...
PETE HEGSETH

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
PETE HEGSETH

In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valia...
PETE HEGSETH

It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to takin...
PETE HEGSETH

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be ...
PETE HEGSETH

I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Inva...
PETE HEGSETH

I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand ...
PETE HEGSETH

The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the differe...
PETE HEGSETH

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught...
PETE WENTZ

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care...
PETE CARROLL

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need...
PETE CARROLL I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. T...
PETE HAMILL The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. T...
PETE HAMILL

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade ...
PETE MARAVICH

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I...
PETE SAMPRAS

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
PETE ROSE

Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Vetera...
PETE HEGSETH I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ea...
PETE FOUNTAIN

I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
PETE ROSE When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it ...
PETE BEST

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those l...
PETE WENTZ The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to informa...
PETE WILSON

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
PETE TOWNSHEND You'd never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for ...
PETE BURNS

Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of b...
PETE ROSE

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in redu...
PETE DOCTER

I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. S...
PETE WENTZ I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.
PETE WATERMAN What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
PETE HAMILL My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visu...
PETE BURNS

I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' ...
PETE WENTZ

Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally hav...
PETE HEGSETH

Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collaps...
PETE HEGSETH Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find ...
PETE EARLEY

As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the fla...
PETE GALLEGO

To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happi...
PETE TOWNSHEND The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up t...
PETE CASHMORE

I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in ...
PETE SEEGER

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
PETE ROSE

HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texa...
PETE GALLEGO

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame,...
PETE ROSE

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Nev...
PETE ROSE

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot ...
PETE ROSE The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our econom...
PETE SESSIONS

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a...
PETE TOWNSHEND

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I ...
PETE TOWNSHEND

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on firs...
PETE ROSE

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just flo...
PETE DOCTER

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the wa...
PETE STARK

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat...
PETE HEGSETH

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. H...
PETE ROSE

I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.
PETE GALLEGO

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player...
PETE ROSE

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a diffe...
PETE ROSE

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
PETE ROSE

I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyel...
PETE WENTZ If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
PETE HAMILL

Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
PETE DOCTER Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
PETE DOHERTY

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could ...
PETE WENTZ

My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, befor...
PETE TOWNSHEND

I was the class clown in high school, but I always took it too far, so nobody liked me. I was annoyi...
PETE DAVIDSON

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the p...
PETE TOWNSHEND

Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the ga...
PETE SAMPRAS

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. ...
PETE ROSE I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the groun...
PETE DOMENICI The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't t...
PETE HAMILL

I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like ...
PETE WENTZ

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are pla...
PETE ROSE

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
PETE ROSE Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shel...
PETE EARLEY 'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.
PETE HAMILL

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But th...
PETE SAMPRAS

One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the gene...
PETE GALLEGO

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I h...
PETE SEEGER Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while t...
PETE PLOSZEK

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
PETE WENTZ

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world...
PETE SEEGER The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, t...
PETE SESSIONS

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come afte...
PETE SEEGER

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old....
PETE ROSE

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine pri...
PETE SEEGER At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audie...
PETE POSTLETHWAITE

Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperati...
PETE GALLEGO

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in th...
PETE SAMPRAS

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support ...
PETE WENTZ

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of ...
PETE TOWNSHEND Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, dili...
PETE HAMILL

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.
PETE WENTZ If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I...
PETE BURNS

I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a ge...
PETE ROSE

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very s...
PETE TOWNSHEND Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth ...
PETE MCCLOSKEY

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it ma...
PETE SEEGER

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
PETE SEEGER I think the Internet is uniquely suited to this free market idea: that everyone on the Internet that...
PETE ASHDOWN Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation sys...
PETE JOHNSON

Not everybody has to sing the melody.
PETE SEEGER

Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.
PETE ROSE

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
PETE ROSE People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make ...
PETE INCAVIGLIA The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.
PETE DYE You can never overlook a team in this conference. You can never do that.
PETE ASADOURIAN We're in a pretty good position, we need three wins to attain one of main goals, to make the tournam...
PETE ASADOURIAN Berlin's a great team. They're good, it's post-season play and a lot of our guys haven't been in the...
PETE ASADOURIAN Defense got us here and defense is going to carry us through. We've been emphasizing defense since D...
PETE ASADOURIAN We didn't even know. We came out. The boys took the floor early and we heard all the commotion. It w...
PETE ASADOURIAN We were getting shots off but nothing was falling for us early. I think guys came out a little tight...
PETE ASADOURIAN He?s been waiting for this. He?s been on the varsity team for four years and he got a taste of this ...
PETE ASADOURIAN You got to be disciplined, be disciplined. Two guys, one spot.
PETE ASADOURIAN We're expected to get eight wins. We're expected to go to the tournament.
PETE ASADOURIAN With hard work and a hard work ethic comes success.
PETE ASADOURIAN In the upcoming weeks, the lawyers for these two students are going to be able to provide objective ...
PETE ANDERSON He'll find that the competition here is very strong, and the more people who come out here and are f...
PETE ANDERSON What motivated the comments is players not getting what they thought they were paying for.
PETE ANDERSON The big difference is that government rarely has mergers.
PETE ANDERSON I think it does give everyone a lot of opportunities. And its good for racing.
PETE ANDERSON No charges should be brought; the investigation should be closed. . . . There's no scientific eviden...
PETE ANDERSON My client has previously denied that any sexual activity ever took place in that bathroom stall and ...
PETE ANDERSON Typically, when you're giving out 63 scholarships, you have 15 freshmen who aren't ready to play. A ...
PETE ADRIAN Daryl has certainly been a bull. He's a young man with great balance and he's extremely strong. He's...
PETE ADRIAN I think we're improving every time out. A lot of teams take a step forward and then go backward a li...
PETE ADRIAN We saw some guys at the (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) Media Day -- Rodney (Hughes) and Vernon (E...
PETE ADRIAN We were very disappointed in the way our special teams played. Those things got us off on the wrong ...
PETE ADRIAN We've got to get better. We had four or five scoring opportunities. When you have two tipped passes ...
PETE ADRIAN You always want to win your first game because it does set the tone for the season. Being a new staf...
PETE ADRIAN

Definitely. If I wasn't ordinary, this wouldn't feel really strange to me. It would feel very deserv...
PETE WENTZ Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
PETE HAMILL

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances ...
PETE ROSE He won't be our coach next year. I'm not sure how all of that works out, the terminology of that. I ...
PETE BOONE I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up ...
PETE DOMENICI

It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.
PETE CARROLL To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than t...
PETE HAMILL The benefit, I think, is it allows bars to stay open longer (on New Year's), instead of everybody ha...
PETE MADLAND

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism ba...
PETE SEEGER You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.
PETE BURNS

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
PETE SEEGER I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people st...
PETE CASHMORE We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of...
PETE SESSIONS The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its wri...
PETE HAMILL

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to...
PETE SAMPRAS

I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points tha...
PETE SEEGER History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New Yo...
PETE SESSIONS

There's a nice little ring to it because of our NFL backgrounds, ... Everyone wants to see what's go...
PETE CARROLL

There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.

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