Spurs Quotes

• The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.

  Christine Pelosi

  Usa, President, Hussein

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• There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

  Bradley Cooper

  Order, Nuggets, Stories

  "Interview: Limitless' Bradley Cooper". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, www.cinemablend.com. March 15, 2011.

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• When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Change, Men, Views

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.54, eBookIt.com

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• Any player coming to Spurs whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must be prepared to work at his game. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing.

  Bill Nichols

  Hate, Boys, Player

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• I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

  Graham Roberts

  Running, Wall, Bricks

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• Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Motivation, People, Giving

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• Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

  Graham Roberts

  Needs, Fund, Havens

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• And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.

  John Motson

  Half, Cups, Firsts

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• For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

  John Motson

  Football, Black And White, Yellow

  Quoted in Motson's National Obsession (2004).

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• She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)

  Kate Chopin

  Dog, Father, Distance

  Kate Chopin (2015). “The Awakening & Other Short Stories”, p.166, Booklassic

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• There's no use being satisfied when things
  are done wrongly. I want perfection.

  Bill Nichols

  Perfection, Use, Done

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• It's been my life, Tottenham Hotspur,
  and I love the club.

  Bill Nichols

  Clubs, Tottenham, Hotspur

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• It's no use just winning, we've got to win well.

  Bill Nichols

  Winning, Use, Wells

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• If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.

  Bill Nichols

  Done, Fields, Exhausted

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• Don't squat with your spurs on.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Cowgirls, Rodeo

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• Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.

  Vera Nazarian

  Good Morning, Sleep, Adventure

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• It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Decision, Spur Of The Moment, Quiet

  Jeffrey Archer (2009). “Sons of Fortune”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

  James Dyson

  Disappointment, Years, Firsts

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job creation and spur job growth. The Fed's plan is to give banks more money to finance the private sector job creation. But banks have ample cash now; they aren't lending, and the private sector is not creating the jobs. That is why we have 15 million people unemployed.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Jobs, Creating, Government

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• I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my work. However, he read through it and said, 'This is useless. What makes the stock go up and down?' That comment acted as a spur. Thereafter, I focused my analysis on seeking to identify the factors that were strongly correlated to a stock's price movement as opposed to looking at all the fundamentals. Frankly, even today, many analysts still don't know what makes their particular stocks go up and down.

  Stanley Druckenmiller

  Directors, Analysis, Banking

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• If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle of all against all - it can be seen how the two practices emerge from and limit the extend of the disequilibrating impact of the contradiction involved in the geocultural agenda.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Struggle, Impact, Practice

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• Team spirit spurs me on. I've always found it easier to be strong for other people than for myself.

  Cheryl Cole

  Strong, Team, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

  Mickey Hart

  Art, Creativity, Inspire

  "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

  William Blum

  Degrees, Action, Discomfort

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• Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

  John Gay

  Brother, Envy, Pay

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.23

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