#backs

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

#basketball #because #black #college #could

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it. ↗

— Nellie Melba

#escape #fame #never

Quarterbacks are always ready. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#quarterbacks #ready

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#drama #drama school #dues #every #i

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#acting #away #backside #below #belt

Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#best #darrell #defensive #exceptional #fast

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#backs #easy #exception #him #honors

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#backstage #brain #casino #certain #certain things

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease. ↗

— Pat Summitt

#challenges #combination #competition #disease #endure

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! ↗

— Billy Sunday

#backsliding #cast #causes #church #conversion