"I'm staunch. If you are lucky enough to be able to play for your country, it seems to make you even prouder of your roots and origins, and to me that's Wellington."

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Source : "The Wellingtonian interview: Murray Mexted". Interview with Joseph Romanos, www.stuff.co.nz. July 1, 2009.

#Country Quotes #Roots Quotes #Play Quotes

“Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.”
“If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!”
“The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.”

Source : "Mitch McConnell, Alison Lundergan Grimes Attack Each Other On Coal" by Robert Farley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.
“I've got numbers in my head that I'd like to keep to myself. If I get them or pass them, only I will know.”
“My first term I sang Al Green... in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy .”
“You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.”
“The idea of searching for some secret for trading success misses the point.”
“Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”

Source : "From The Diary Of A Snail (On Stasis and Progress)". Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.

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