Shirley Strickland quotes

  • Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  • Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

  • You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

  • It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.

  • I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.

  • From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  • First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

  • If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

  • I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

  • The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

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