Jocks Quotes - Page 4

• I don't want to spoon-feed the audience, like, "This is the funny guy, this is one you hate, this is the one you like." A lot of movies do that. They don't really give you a choice. They show you the jock, and he's an idiot, and everybody has to hate him. You have no choice.

  Fede Alvarez

  Hate, Giving, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

  Chris Matthews

  Kings, Hero, Kids

  "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Coming from heavy music too, it's really hard to have heavy music not sound too butthead-ish or jock-ish, and there's a fine line between Limp Bizkit and Nirvana - there's a fine line there, and it's terrifying.

  Aaron Bruno

  Sound, Lines, Heavy Music

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• I think the biggest shift for me is - this is going to sound like a wanky actor, but - getting in touch with, and learning to not just appreciate, but actually really enjoy being a woman. Because for so long I was a jock, and I was an athlete, and I was a tomboy, and people would joke about like, fancy dress, you should go as a girl.

  Zoe Bell

  Girl, Athlete, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I could have skated by as an athlete, but the world is so much bigger and more interesting than any one thing. I didn't want to be pigeonholed as just a jock. I'm also an author, a student of history, and I collect memorabilia from the Wild West. I'm also a son, a father, and a friend.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Father, Athlete, Son

  "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Basketball Legend and Kids' Book Author". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 16, 2012.

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• I might have been too tiny for it, but I wanted to become a professional tennis player. I was a pretty good tennis player as a kid, but ultimately I just don't think that I have that jock mentality needed for sports.

  Robbie Rist

  Sports, Kids, Player

  Source: www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com

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• If you want information about sports, I can tell you things from the 1940's, and the couple years that my grandson was kind of a jock, but nothing in between.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Couple, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Most people don't know this but over the course of time, the official of the race in 1967 in Boston, who attacked me Jock Semple and I became very good friends. That gave me a whole new perspective on forgiveness.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Good Friend, Race, Boston

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• I forgave Jock Semple his action on Boston race just around the time I got to Heartbreak Hill. I had 24 miles to go and you cannot run 24 miles and stay angry. That's the truth. When we go out and we're mad at our boss or mad at the world, when we run, we get it out of our system.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Running, Race, Boston

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I knew he was an over-stressed race director, I knew he was protecting his race. It took five years because we had to do our homework - meaning we women - we did our legislative work and we officially got into the Boston Marathon. Then, all was forgiven by Jock Semple.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Race, Boston, Years

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• Jock Semple said "Oh the women ran well today the Boston Marathon and they deserve to be in the race." I had to laugh. I said "Well it took us five years but anyway, we're here." It pretty much changed everything.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Race, Boston, Years

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and planted a big kiss on my cheek. He said in his Scottish brogue: "Come on lass, let's get a wee bit of notoriety." He never said he was sorry but that was his way of saying it, I'm sure.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sorry, Kissing, Together

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh.

  Lester Hayes

  Unique, Data, Nfl

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• I enjoyed being what I was in radio, which some thought of as a shock jock although, to this day, I still can't figure out what I've done that's so shocking. As to my favorite interviews, I loved having my mother and father on. I also enjoyed talking to Elmo, who's a puppet. I found T.I.'s trying to be extra-cool very endearing. Tyra Banks was not the diva I expected her to be. I loved talking to her. And Simon Cowell is a really nice guy. Yeah! He's my fave, and he's handsome.

  Wendy Williams

  Mother, Father, Nice

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Well, my dad was into music, but he wasn't into me being into music. In my house when I was a kid, when I was real young, my dad wanted us all to play sports, and we were jock-like. We had a lot of money. And my brother was sort of the light of our family, and he was a good athlete. And I wasn't a very good athlete, but I tried to be. And then when I was 15 my dad went bankrupt, and we moved to Houston. And I went with him, but then I went back to Portland.

  Todd Snider

  Sports, Brother, Dad

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• The ultimate act of cowardice is the fat-headed wrestling guy sitting behind the frail kid in math class, clipping him on the ear, saying: 'What are you going to do about that, faggot?' That is cowardice. When the bullets start flying past that jock's saucer-shaped ears, that's not cowardice. That's payback.

  Doug Stanhope

  Kids, Wrestling, Math

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• I was always more of an academic than a jock.

  Edwin Moses

  Academic

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

  Billy Corgan

  Funny, Heart, People

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• To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

  Michael Biehn

  Party, School, Honest

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• I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

  Frederick Busch

  Novelists, Next, Philosopher

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• And so getting to meet Aubrey Plaza and Mae Whitman and getting to know two awesome girls who are just kick-ass. It's been nice that way where we probably wouldn't have worked together on any other crazy project. And just like you know Chris Evans teaching us all the high-five because he's dealing with like non-jocks (laughter) and we're like yeah!

  Alison Pill

  Girl, Laughter, Crazy

  Source: collider.com

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• Suckas on my jock when I walk down the block,
  I really don't care if you're jealous or not.

  LL Cool J

  Block, Rap, Jealous

  Song: I Can't Live Without My Radio, Album: Radio

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• You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

  Marissa Mayer

  Ruffles, Computer, Designer

  "New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s Most Memorable Quotes About Being A Woman In Tech" by Britney Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he continued to sleep every night for fourteen years.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Friendship, Dog, Sleep

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books

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• You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

  Marissa Mayer

  Mom, Fashion, Art

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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