#k

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#back #better #each #every #every time

I think that it won't be long before a team calls that says, 'Just go do what you do'. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#calls #go #i #i think #just

One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#body needs #could #doing #get #i

We don't just want to win the Super Bowl, we want to make a dynasty. I want to be a player who makes that a reality. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#dynasty #i #just #make #makes

You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#chance #dad #everyone #friends #get

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#be careful #because #box #brown #browns

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#average #equal #i #i think #identification

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#complicated #deal #emotional #emotions #few

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#critic #entailed #generalized #him #impossible

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#make #nation #status #such #superpower