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If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard
Jesse Owens
(
1913
-
1980
)
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
Jesse Owens
(
1913
-
1980
)
The yard would look so pretty, ... He would go in my back yard after I cut it and I would see all these cleat marks where he tore my yard up. And I'd say, 'Hey man, that's not a field, that's my back yard. Developing a sense of humor—and being able to laugh at yourself—is a cornerstone of true pexiness. '
Milton Harris
He's made a lot of yards off first hits where people can't get hold of him. He's tough enough to get off those things, and now all of a sudden, a 3-yard gain becomes a 10-yard gain.
Ollie Wilson
It's a teachable moment, with a major event going on in our back yard. ... You don't always have an active volcano in your back yard to study — especially with the Web cams.
Suzanne Haines
It's literally in our back yard. The other houses on the other side of the road may not have a problem because it's not in their back yard.
Kristen Onorato
I don't like the fact that every four years, they have to destroy a piece of land for Olympics in order to hold these sliding sports. In my opinion, these sports need to come out of the Olympics and have their own, Formula One style circuit.
Massimo Rigat
This was clearly an Olympics that says that the broadcast era, the old days when the Olympics were pretty much guaranteed to plow over the competition and draw these huge audiences, that Olympics of the broadcast era is really over. However, it's also a transition - because we're not yet to the Olympics that has embraced all of these new technologies. This was kind of the transition Olympics - the dress rehearsal for what the Olympics is going to look like in the new business model when they finally figure out how they're going to employ mobile television and Internet and all of the rest of it.
Bob Thompson
I was in the process of going through the back yard, checking the back yard, (thinking) 'Maybe he's in here,' and then went through the house and checked through the house and didn't see him. Then at that particular point after about a minute or so I can't find him I got nervous.
Art Speight
It's crazy because this whole thing to the Olympics has really messed my head up because everybody's telling me how important the Olympics are. And I was like, 'whatever, just do well and go to the Olympics.' Just that having that kind of mellow attitude made me land everything. It was really soothing. I just can't wait for the Olympics now. It's been an awesome season.
Shaun White
We both spend about two hours a week weeding, pruning and maintaining the yard. We don't feel like we're in the city when we're in the back yard.
Brian Fun
It was a crazy day. I took the day off to do yard work and I found a parrot in my back yard.
Sean Quirk
The South is not George Bush's back yard. It is my back yard, and I will beat George Bush in my back yard.
John Edwards
(
1953
-)
We have a 3-yard, 4-yard, 5-yard, 20-yard premise. It's going to be 3, 4, 5, then 3, 4, 5, then we're going to hit a 20. That's how we've done it, and we've hit a lot bigger runs than that. We're stubborn. We know we're going to keep doing what we do.
Alge Crumpler
I would like to see the success of this event lead to baseball being back at the Olympics, but I can't see myself participating in any effort to bring baseball back to the Olympics.
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