#ended

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#champion #considered #defended #fluke #once

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. ↗

— Richard Helms

#cathartic #dickensian #expended #frustration #i

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#covering #descended #equal #number #party

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#either #equate #extended #intrinsic #look

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#because #client #creative #depended #done

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#alone #bands #better #body #did

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#california #citizen #come #creation #for the people

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anyone #anything #being #california #end

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted. ↗

— Phil Collins

#distorted #ended #few #last #little

The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994. ↗

— David Cone

#after #august #believing #cap #choice