"I would have to say that first preseason game. Just to put the pads on as an NFL player for the first time. It's a humbling experience because you realize that you are here and now you have an opportunity to go to work and continue to better yourself as a player. It's what you work for as an athlete and you know once you get there the real work begins."

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Source : Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com. June 9, 2014.

Giovani Bernard

#Real Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.”
“When I was doing the screenplay, people who read the book Call Me by Your Name would go, "Oh god, what are you going to do about the peach scene?" I'd say, "I don't know, but I'll do something." And finally I figured out that there was a way of doing it without being totally graphic. You can do it in a way where the audience gets it and accepts it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.”

Source : Penny Lernoux (1984). “In Banks We Trust”, Anchor Books
“Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.”
“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.18, Vintage
“When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.”
“The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.”

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