J Allard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • No one man is superior to the game.

  • The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

  • You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

  • This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

  • You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

  • The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  • Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

  • I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

  • Use video to train assistants you'll be surprised how quickly they learn.

  • I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.