Captains Quotes - Page 3

• There can be only one Captain to a ship.

  Thomas John Barnardo

  Ships

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• But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

  Rod Taylor

  Boxing, Surfing, Clubs

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• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, Irritation, Years

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• The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

  Mike Pence

  Strong, Government, Uncharted Waters

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

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• When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Different, Wayne

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• I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Thinking, Rope

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• I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

  Judd Nelson

  America, People, Shields

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

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• Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Book, Age, Half

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

  William Shatner

  Advice, Captain Kirk, Able

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• The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Confidence, Team, Should Have

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• I am the captain of my pain.

  Nick Cave

  Pain, Philosophy

  Song: Brother, My Cup is Empty

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• He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.

  V. V. S. Laxman

  Dhoni, Quality, India

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• My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, Soul, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Eye, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.101, New York Review of Books

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• I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

  Bruce Dickinson

  Captain Kirk, Fame, Beam

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

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• All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

  Upton Sinclair

  Country, Men, Two

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.227, First Avenue Editions

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• Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties?

  Garth Crooks

  Media, England, Duty

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• HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, West Indies, Sea

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.147, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Over You, Roles

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• But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Thinking, Different

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• The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Winning, Toss

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

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• Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

  Joshua Slocum

  Party, Rain, Cities

  Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.

  Andrew Whitworth

  Jobs, Team, Play

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Ships, Port

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• I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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