Dave Checketts Quotes

#1. Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

Patrick Ewing

#2. Wonderful!Hold Me Tight blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. This fabulous book will be of great benefitto couples trying to find their way to better communication and deeper, more fulfilling ways of being with each other. Bravo!

Daniel J. Siegel

#3. You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

Julie Ann Dawson

#4. Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

Vandana Shiva

#5. Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

Eric Reynolds

#6. If you want to write, you write. The only way to learn to write is by writing.

Stephen King

#7. I've never been beaten up! I'm a black belt in Run-Fu.

Tre Cool

#8. Man is more attractive when left to the imagination.

Michele Halberstadt

#9. Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks.

Dave Checketts

#10. There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets and have a history of winning where, if you do things right, there's an enormous upside.

Dave Checketts

#11. If you are against abortions, don't have one.

Scott Andrews

#12. Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

Dave Checketts

#13. I've spent half my life on planes. I have a lot of love for New Zealand, though. That is where the really arty, whimsical side of the family resided - in Hobbitland.

Alice Englert

#14. I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

Dave Checketts

#15. ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Ambrose Bierce

#16. Search deeply in your soul, you will find love, peace and joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. If my children call me during the day and leave a message, I return those calls first, not last.

Dave Checketts

#18. All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.

James Gray

#19. If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

Dave Checketts

#20. I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.

Grace Jones

#21. The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

Dave Checketts

#22. I'd rather work to live than live to work.

Mila Kunis

#23. What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will

Stella Gibbons