Dorrance Quotes

#1. I went on a Saturday afternoon, once more cutting through Dorrance Marstellar's cornfield

Stephen King

#2. Anson Dorrance ... left me a short, encouraging note: "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching.

Mia Hamm

#3. Create memories; forget misery.

Debasish Mridha

#4. When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it's a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them

Tom Dorrance

#5. Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

Dick Van Dyke

#6. Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game.

Anson Dorrance

#7. When Mia Hamm touches the ball, you just hold your breath.

Anson Dorrance

#8. It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die

Steve Biko

#9. Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

Anson Dorrance

#10. There are some people who interest us immediately, at first glance, before a word is exchanged.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.

Anson Dorrance

#12. There is no better coach than the bench.

Anson Dorrance

#13. There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#14. Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler

#15. After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

Anson Dorrance

#16. Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.

Aeschines

#17. I will shrink myself no longer to make any human feel secure

Jewel

#18. It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

Robert Grosseteste

#19. You can never be fit enough for this game.

Anson Dorrance

#20. My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

Josh Duhamel

#21. Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch
as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Dorothy Gilman

#23. I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their relationships; it came out of the fact that we were basically types.

Harrison Ford

#24. What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.

Anson Dorrance

#25. Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?

Courtney Milan

#26. It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering.

Virginia Woolf