"As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career."

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Source : "Landon Donovan: World Cup Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 17, 2006.

Landon Donovan

#Careers Quotes #Watches Quotes #Spectators Quotes

“Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.”
“I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.”
“God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.”
“I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.”
“There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I'm creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I didn't want to stick to convention. If anything you can call it rebellious but certainly not creative.”
“You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small', you tell me those things and I'll find a way to prove you wrong.”
“You don't want to be slavishly doing the same thing over and over again that everybody else has done, but at the same time, you're conscious of, "This is important. I owe something to my ten year old self right now. I need to respect that." I need for that kid who is obsessively reading comic books, I need there to be something rewarding for him where he's like, I didn't waste my time. I know what this is.”

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