Captains Quotes - Page 2

• Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Team

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

  David Beckham

  Sports, Team, Mean

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• I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

  Theodore Bikel

  Roles

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• Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean Exploration, Southern, Hemisphere

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• Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

  Guy Lafleur

  Years, Nhl, Leader

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• In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

  Thomas Frank

  People, Culture, Tycoons

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• Great things have small beginnings.

  Francis Drake

  Life, Achievement, Humble Beginnings

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• I am the captain of my soul.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Soul

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• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

  Merlin Olsen

  Should Have, Important, Example

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• The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Kings, Humble, Sacrifice

  Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897

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• Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

  George Farquhar

  Journey, Names

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Sir Harry Wildair”

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• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

  George Santayana

  Positive, War, Remembrance

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.262, Рипол Классик

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• I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

  Johnny Depp

  "Depp charge" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2004.

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• I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.

  Mats Sundin

  Success, Sports, Thinking

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• We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivation, Fate

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

  Sanford I. Weill

  New York, Team, School

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• Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Winning, Marijuana, Years

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• My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Mother, Uncles, Father

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• My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

  Tracy Austin

  Mom, Dad, Air

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• Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

  William Shatner

  Long, Income, Captain Kirk

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• I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

  John E. Walker

  Soccer, School, Cricket

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• I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the Army at the end, in 1945.

  Eli Wallach

  Army, Years, Medical

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

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• I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

  William Westmoreland

  Adequate, Firsts, Students

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• Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

  Peter Fonda

  Son, America, Easy Rider

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