- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beat Quotes
On rhythm, rivalry and getting knocked down.
The word does real work across this set, covering everything from beating oneself up over old regrets to childhood scuffles remembered with surprising fondness decades later. A baseball quote recalls learning early on how to lay down a bunt and reach base ahead of the throw, before adopting a different hitting style entirely.
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- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Phil Taylor is in the field - no matter whether it's tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace - he is the man to beat.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.
- Competitors
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
- Ball
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to beat a defender when you have the ball. You need to be able to successfully pass to a team-mate, and there are other attributes needed to be the complete player.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn't really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right matchups.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
- Contests
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know Andy Roddick's probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
- Sleep
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- Nov 07, 2020
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to be the champion, you've got to play the best, you've got to beat the best.
- Campus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg. At campus, we were absorbing that stuff. We looked to America.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020