#slipped

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! ↗

— Davy Crockett

#chance #fame #fellow #greased #hands

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#difficult #guy #honest #i #i think

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone. ↗

— Slick Rick

#bad #bad guy #being #could #easily

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach. ↗

— James McGreevey

#around #core #further #gave #i

I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#could #go #i #i always #me