"I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate."

-- Bill James

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“Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.”
“It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.”
“First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.”
“I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.”
“The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.”
“I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.”
“The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.”

Source : "UK growth depends on tax rates that people are prepared to pay" by John Redwood, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2012.
“A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.”

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