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We were asking a bunch of [junior varsity] players to do things they probably weren't ready to do.


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At Faulkner we have a junior varsity and varsity team, which gives the players experience and time t...
ANDY PRIOLA They were looking to play on the varsity and they probably would've been varsity players. They both ...
DEAN BEHRANS We have a lot of inexperienced players who have really never played the game. They were very enthusi...
ERIN DELANEY Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW We are basically a junior varsity team with one senior and one junior with extensive varsity experie...
MIKE TOW We are going to miss this senior group. They were a pretty good group. We have some players coming a...
BRUCE GUNTER Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN We even had a junior varsity sweeper protecting the net because we were out two players due to illne...
LAURIE CARR You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO I do have a lot coming back, plus I've got a very talented (junior varsity) team.
JUDD TERWILLIGER I'm extremely excited and ready to accept the challenges that come with the job. We've been fortunat...
GUY KANIHO The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS The igniter of this whole thing was Katrina Chapman. She's a freshman junior varsity player, who's b...
MIKE KLEMBARA [Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’...
JON EDGELL REVISITING THE LIST
1. Kiss Estelle
Okay, at least I've met her. She thinks I'm a creep. A...
FIONA WOOD There were 75 male golfers and we place two in the top 10. We were missing players due to other comm...
DENNIS CHANDLER We are a junior-dominated team. Many of them have varsity experience, but they are still young.
JEFF BEAVERS I have a junior varsity team playing varsity basketball.
ED JACKSON We got beat 16-0 in junior varsity and 7-0 in varsity.
ATHLETICS DIRECTOR SCOTT RADUKA People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE Our guys went at them and they were ready to play. They have all the intentions of doing what we're ...
MATT PAINTER Some will also play junior varsity and varsity.
TED KERNER Our captains have done a tremendous job of getting the players ready this year [and] showing the you...
BRIAN O'CONNOR We had to go to a junior varsity program because we thought it would be better to wait until the gir...
LISA COLLEY If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI We basically lost the entire varsity team. This is mostly the junior varsity that is coming up to pl...
CLIFFORD LEWIS Less thinking, more living.
S.R. CRAWFORD We were ready to play. It had nothing to do with not being ready. They just beat us.
ERIC KADOOKA All I am asking (my players) to do is the simple things and do it well. To pass the ball ten yards, ...
ALAN KERNAGHAN We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,
PAUL RUDD They spoke of destiny and how sometimes we were chosen to do things that others were to weak to do.
KIRA SAITO Even though we were minus a bunch of players, our line did well.
GENE NUDO She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell wh...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Do things others can't be believe you did.
LORRIN L. LEE Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER They were not ready for me. They were not ready for me to do the show upstairs. Not yet.
ROY HORN We actually joke about it, how we don't look like a typical varsity team. And I think teams do under...
GREG SCHRIMPF We're primarily a junior-oriented team, but we feel we can compete at the varsity level.
LEE MEYER UCLA did not come ready to play, ... Once they got down, you could see they were acting like they we...
MICHAEL JOHNSON A bunch of us wanted to help out and are ready to do it again for Friday's game, if we don't get the...
CHAD WILLIAMS We were ready for her to do something.
DEBBIE STROMAN We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they “want to do” and start asking t...
AMY POEHLER They [former England players] probably stopped believing, whereas a lot of players in the current te...
ANDREW STRAUSS We just have to find it in ourselves to find our focus on the football field. The young players are ...
JAMIE DELAUNOIS Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great.
NELSON RIOS We got a chance to play everyone. We started a little slow, with no junior varsity game, but we got ...
DEB RATHBURN I thought we did the things we wanted to do tonight. The first quarter we played a lot of our starte...
JEFF BOGER It'll be a learning year. We have a good eighth-grade class that we expect to help at the varsity an...
REGGIE WHITE They were really clinging hard to Ben. Ben does a good job distributing the ball, and we got the sho...
TRAVIS BROWN It was a nice win for us. It doesn't happen very often where we win all of the varsity and junior va...
DONALYN WOESTE We found some things in this team tonight that have been hiding. It was a tremendous night of findin...
JENN WARDEN They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.
LAUREN DESTEFANO It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything ...
JOSEPH ROSS You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' an...
ALISON ADAMS He was a (junior varsity) wrestler until about two weeks ago. He rose to the challenge.
DAVE EWING We were all very curious about this. They were able to do things that other companies just couldn't ...
CHAILLE BRINDLEY They?re all willing to learn and be ready and open to playing a different position so we can put our...
GORDON LEWIS We were a little slow getting to the shooters and they were able to get their shots off. I think the...
LEE OKUJA We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.
BRIAN HARPER I thought they played incredible basketball, given the fact that they had not had the opportunity to...
JOANNE BRACKER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have lear...
DO WON CHANG It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who be...
DO WON CHANG When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked a...
DO WON CHANG Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
UNSOURCED, MISATTRIBUTED TO MAYA ANGELOU Be sure to do all the things you want to do before you die ...because you could die in the next minu...
LORRIN L. LEE We tend to procrastinate on doing things we don't want to do and do things we want to do.
LORRIN L. LEE Even though it was a (junior varsity) event it was pretty tough. We started off very slow in the mor...
DAVE GRACIA Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT We have only two seniors, and many of the juniors are up from the junior varsity team, ... How they ...
CASEY SILVER This should be another great test for the junior varsity.
GEORGE BRIGGS They were not ready for me to do the show upstairs. Not yet.
ROY HORN It has changed a lot. They were not as abundant as they are now. I think what happened is everybody ...
AL FROST See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART They are a good bunch of people trying to do a very difficult thing.
JOE LADISH We take and take and take from these kids - and what are they going to do? The bottom line is, you'v...
GARY JACKSON This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity ...
BARRY LYGA They were ready for the game. That's what the playoffs are about. You've got to be ready; we came ou...
MAURA MCHUGH We know their coaching staff and tendencies. They got a bunch of new guys so we'll have to react to ...
ANDY GRAHAM A lot of schools recruited me late because I played junior varsity my junior year. I went to a camp ...
HERBERT HILL We were fortunate to win game one. We didn't play very well, and we squandered a lot of point-scorin...
DON SHAW We were worried about what to do defensively. We knew they had good players. Up until the opening ti...
JAMEY COLLINS There's even a couple of players from the 1950 Lou Ball (clothing store) junior B team. We hoping to...
BRUCE HUFF So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What I saw started three years ago, when I coached the varsity and the junior varsity. I have eight ...
CHRISTINE SMITH I believe great people do things before they are ready.
AMY POEHLER For the first time in having a junior varsity team on the field, I thought we did a good job,
RICK JACKSON We played our junior varsity in the second half. Everybody is spreading the ball out, but we're goin...
JEFF MATHEWS They wanted me to do what I could do, doing things on my own, so I'd be ready for college.
ASHLEY GROTJAHN They had just five regular varsity players. We tired them out and that was the game.
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BEN ELTON Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ...
BEN ELTON If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...
BEN ELTON I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JOHNSON I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON