#i tried

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#against #because #become #believe #best

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#first #goalkeeper #i #i tried #more

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#career #classes #education #foundation #gave

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me. ↗

— Billy Carter

#i tried #live #made #me #press

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#country #cross #cross country #friends #go

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record. ↗

— Neko Case

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I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#baby #because #i #i tried #immediately

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#being #best #best way #character #i

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years. ↗