History Quote by Tom Osborne

“The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.”

Tom Osborne

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I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.

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Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these over the years, and I can answer without batting an eye: No. Accomplishments, applause, awards and fortune are rewards that often come as the result of hard work and a determined spirit, but there is something bigger. Something…

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You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach…

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We are probably hitting more this week than we ever have, just to see, ... We have 40 kids out there, and it is…

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Orlando... So many courses & great deals, especially in the summer!

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I still miss the players and I miss the game and the strategy. The first couple years were really difficult. Now I realize I'll…

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Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity.

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Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

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By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

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My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.

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I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.

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Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.

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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

Simon Schama

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

Norman Vincent Peale

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will…

Frederick Buechner

The NBA is my history.

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History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the…

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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

John Dryden

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Jean Cocteau

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Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot…

David Fahrenthold

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History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of…

Allison Schroeder

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We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

Edgar Mitchell