"You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose."

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Source : "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

Carli Lloyd

#Decision Quotes #Pissed Off Quotes #Down And Quotes

“And Iâ€™d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, Iâ€™d find you and Iâ€™d choose you.”
“I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about what's going on, which is something you can't do if you're totally caught up in the moment.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.”
“What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.”
“92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars.”
“There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.”
“Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.”
“It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.”

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