#contract

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#commodity #contractor #military #military

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#agreement #contract #contracts #cut #get

My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.' ↗

— Doug Flutie

#blast #contract #first #football #getting

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#commercial #contract #getting #gotten #had

The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club. ↗

— Richard Gough

#another #club #contract #federation #forest

I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate. ↗

— Luis de Guindos

#bank #been #believes #cent #central

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#anything #before #contract #even #excuses

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once. ↗

— Charles E. Merrill

#does #full #him #his #laborers

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life. ↗

— Allan Houston

#contract #going #huge #just #life

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece. ↗

— Brenda Holloway

#getting #me #out #piece #success