Alex Spanos Quotes

#1. I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

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#2. When you're winning, you're a hero. When you're losing, you're a bum ... I'm as bad as the fans, believe me. If they only knew how I hate losing and what we go through to try to win.

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#3. My greatest success story has been my family.

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#4. Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

Idries Shah

#5. All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows how to work. We all started working very young.

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#6. I'm a screamer and a yeller. When I want something, all I do is yell, and I get responses.

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#7. I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexander. But I don't believe I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.

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#8. Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

G.H. Hardy

#9. My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

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#10. Nobody who knows me would believe this, but I was always the life of the party. Oh, how I loved to sing and dance, and we had good times. Good clean fun it was, too.

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#11. The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

Patrick Leahy

#12. Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

David Bowie

#13. By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.

Natalie Du Toit

#14. I remember everything about it - with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#15. The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.

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#16. We had to take off our shoes after school to save wear on the soles.

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#17. This is not mathematics; this is theology.

Paul Gordan

#18. I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

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#19. OSWALD: [Repeats, in a dull, toneless voice.] The sun. The sun.

Henrik Ibsen

#20. My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

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#21. 1 Thess 5:11 For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you also do.

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