#tried

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#catholic school #down #first #first time #football

I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years. ↗

— June Lockhart

#always #because #did #especially #funny

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#before #big #comeback #days #drive

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away. ↗

— Melissa Manchester

#because #believing #could #i #i tried

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done. ↗

— Paul Muni

#art #been #business #done #how

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#against #conservatism #conservative #destructive #eminently

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#came #depression #everyone #get #glacier

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. ↗

— Gaylord Perry

#chocolate #everything #i #i tried #old

I tried to play rugby but was never very good. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#i #i tried #never #play #rugby

I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did. ↗

— John Forsythe

#always #balance #consists #course #did