Wells Quotes - Page 9

• Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.

  Michele Bachmann

  Crazy, Iowa, Want

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Well, I don't remember all the names of all the clubs we went to

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Names, Clubs

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• When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, People, Want

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• The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Motivation, Winning

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• Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Athlete

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• You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Type, Operations

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• Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

  Joseph Heller

  Military, Way, Fool

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked." Well I watch and I see and I believe it's painful for the fish.

  Donald Trump

  Funny Inspirational, Hurt, Dad

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• My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'

  Geoffrey Rush

  Travel, Strong, School

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• U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

  Alan Grayson

  Mistake, Military, Iraq

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• I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.

  Adam Schiff

  Military, Thinking, Iraq

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• My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'

  Bob Monkhouse

  Love, Funny, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Jobs, Flying

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• I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Giving, Sitting Down

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• It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Mom, Fun

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• I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Team, Awards

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• I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Play, Demand

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• We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Kids, Enough

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• After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Real, Smart

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• We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Fighting, Might

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• If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Running

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• I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Writing

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• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Morning, Hot

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• Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is definitely an interest.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Band, Music Love

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