Flair Quotes - Page 3

• I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Play, League

  "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 1, 2008.

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• Ladies and Gentlemen this fellow combines the classic stylings of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp....that's right, boys and girls every where, your friend Pimpbot 5000!

  Conan O'Brien

  Girl, Boys, Pimp

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• You can never underestimate the prince, I'm always there. The prince will never die. I ain't bragging, but I ain't seen nobody, and I mean nobody, come to the ring in such style, with such flair, charisma, I'm talking about bringing it all, a full package. I mean who would you know that could come out in a flying carpet. Come out like a concert, dancing, with like, oozing confidence, and then get in and take somebody out. Come on, do you know anybody in the history of the sport, that did what Prince Naseem did. And I ain't trying to brag, but I was bloody good at it.

  Naseem Hamed

  Sports, Mean, Talking

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• If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.

  Ric Flair

  Art, Wrestling, Color

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• You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.

  Don King

  Thinking, Boxing, May

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• Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

  John Travolta

  Mother, Dad, Feelings

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• There's still room for flair and artistry and playing a game that's going to confuse people. Federer has proven that, time and time and time again. Even with the new string technology, which has been around for ten years.

  Darren Cahill

  Sports, Technology, Years

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• One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...

  Diana Vreeland

  Rain, Cleansing, Calming

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

  Alex Berenson

  Wish, Littles, Language

  "Fact and Fiction in The Shadow Patrol". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 10, 2012.

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• The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.

  Leon Uris

  Prayer, Men, Discipline

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• Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

  Roddy Piper

  Wrestling, Wwe, Doe

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• I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive.

  Ricky Martin

  Believe, Alive, Broadway

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• I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Fashion, Passion

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• Ric Flair, you can tell all these people that I'm full of it for calling myself the Legend Killer? Well, I think you're full of it for coming out here every Monday and telling the whole world that Triple H is the best wrestler in the world today. I know it's not true, I'm pretty sure all these people know it's not true and Ric Flair, I know that deep down inside your heart, you know it's not true either which is why it's so tragic to see what you've become. This generation is gonna remember Ric Flair for kissing Triple H's ass!

  Randy Orton

  Monday, Heart, Kissing

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• Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Sports, People, Interesting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.

  John Wooden

  Fancy Things, People, Benches

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• The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.

  Tom Brokaw

  Children, Fall, Ambition

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• Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

  Carl Sandburg

  Song, Capture, Prisms

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you see me on the air, I always have jackets on. I like to think I have a flair and a style but I'm always in a business look.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Thinking, Air, Style

  Source: wwd.com

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• Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, May, Born

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest. I've never met The Rock though.

  Bill Burr

  Beer, Rocks, Guy

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I liked Jimmy Snuka, Tony Garea, Larry Zbyszko, Bob Backlund, Bruno Sammartino, Chief Strongbow, SD Jones (even though they never let him win), Captain Lou, Ted DiBiase...Uh...I'm forgetting some people...Greg Valentine. Chris Rock and Ric Flair are the best. Ric Flair is the king.

  Bill Burr

  Kings, Valentine, Winning

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Judging, Ordinary, Done

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• I'm really a big believer in working with people. It's challenging for me to come into already integrated brands and find a way where I can put my own flair on it.

  Erin Wasson

  People, Challenges, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Natural, Horsemanship, Best Things

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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