Ted Simmons quotes

Ted Simmons quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.”
-- Ted Simmons

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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

Source : "Whip Smart: A Memoir". Book by Melissa Febos, therumpus.net. 2010.
“Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.”

Source : "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Talks THE THING and BULLET TO THE HEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2011.
“The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.”
“A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.”
“Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.”
“The actor becomes an emotional athlete.”
“I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.”
“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”
“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”

Source : Amish Tripathi (2015). “The Shiva Trilogy: Omnibus”, p.661, Hachette UK
“In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That.”

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