Eight Quotes
1417 quotes by 1187 authors
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A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of…
— Unknown Author
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I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.
— August Spies
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You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.
— Zoe Saldana
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
— Maimonides
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Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
— Joe Biden
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And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up…
— Julius Erving
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He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're…
— Scottie Pippen
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The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
— Dave Barry
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We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you…
— Jim Valvano
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I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.
— Dennis Rodman
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My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.
— Tom Cruise
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I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.
— Steve Martin
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32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of cream. Divide the…
— Foxy Brown
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks…
— Augusten Burroughs
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I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my…
— Beyonce Knowles
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Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old…
— Rajneesh
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At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good…
— Paula Cole
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