#turned

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#before #dark #fast #hotel #hotel room

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#ball #defeats #down #fight #give

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates. ↗

— Ian Botham

#bad day #day #field #had #people

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#merely #prayer #simplest #turned #wish

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#came #clean #had #house #i

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#learned #lessons #loss #our #out

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again. ↗

— Walter Crane

#again #against #certainly #charge #could

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics. ↗

— James Cronin

#i #physics #professor #returned #university

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#been #case #court #even #government

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.' ↗

— David Duchovny

#better #deserve #director #down #find