Anson Dorrance Quotes

There is no better coach than the bench. ~ Anson Dorrance

The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival ~ Anson Dorrance

When Mia Hamm touches the ball, you just hold your breath. ~ Anson Dorrance

Anson Dorrance ... left me a short, encouraging note: "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching. ~ Mia Hamm

Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game. ~ Anson Dorrance

You can never be fit enough for this game. ~ Anson Dorrance

What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be. ~ Anson Dorrance

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena. ~ Anson Dorrance

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels ~ Anson Dorrance

About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it. ~ Anson Mount

Tuco Medrano, wearing a black ski mask, walked quickly across the busy Bulevar Ignacio Bernardo Norzagaray and put two rounds through the driver side window of the lead truck. The bullets struck Officer Ignacio Reyes in the head, killing him instantly, and sprayed bloody bits of brain matter and bone all over his wide-eyed female partner. ~ Anson Scott

You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again. ~ Anson Carter

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us. ~ Anson Mount

I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now. ~ Anson Williams

If you've ever tried to move from L.A. back to New York, that's a pretty hard move. You forget how cramped things are in New York. You forget how dirty it is in New York. But, it's been the best move of my life, not necessarily for my career, but for my soul. ~ Anson Mount

It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge. ~ Anson Jones

Well, George Anson Phillips is a kind of pathetic case ... He was the sort of cop who would be likely to hang a pinch on a chicken thief, if he saw the guy steal the chicken and the guy fell down running away and hit his head on a post or something and knocked himself out. Otherwise it might get a little tough and George would have to go back to the office for instructions. ~ Raymond Chandler

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success. ~ Anson Mount

I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?"
"I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues.
"Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look.
"Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name."
"It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again. ~ Melina Marchetta

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction. ~ Anson Mount

Having been trained as a stage actor, and then you go out there and you're on 40,000 acres and you have a horse under you and you're shooting a real gun, you almost don't have to act. It's just really amazing. ~ Anson Mount

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days. ~ Anson Jones

Everyone goes through multiple storms in life. It's how you come out on the other side that defines your character, strength, and ability to achieve your God given greatness. ~ J. Anson Brandes

ANSON: I guess we're all monsters.
KAYLEE: Yeah, well, humans can be monsters, too... ~ T.S. Joyce

The reality of what I just heard hit me like a snowball full of rocks. My father was dead, murdered, and the chance of reconciliation gone forever. ~ Anson Scott

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else. ~ Anson Mount

What kind of trouble was he in now? If he thought I was about to bail him out of something, he was as wrong as a football bat. ~ Anson Scott

She lay on her back with arms extended over her head and legs slightly spread. Cuchillo zip-tied her slender wrists and ankles to each corner of the long metal exam table and stuffed a washrag in her mouth to prevent her from crying out… Only her rapidly-moving eyes betrayed her distress, they darted from her captors to the wiry man tied to the wall…The interrogator stood close to the table, carelessly wielding a lovingly sharpened straight razor and licking his lips, while he ogled the helpless girl. Tuco felt his stomach turn when Cuchillo ran his dirty hand up the inside of her smooth leg and under the hem of her short dress. ~ Anson Scott

The Republic of Texas is no more. ~ Anson Jones

We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock."
"Cows?" Anson Choi asks, covering his nose.
"Pigs, too. And horses. Great for growing tomatoes.
The Cadets are wanna-be soldiers. City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
"I'm going to throw up," one of the guys says.
"Don't feel too bad," I explain. "Some of our lot did while they were laying out this stuff. Actually, right there where you're standing. ~ Melina Marchetta

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized. ~ Anson Mount

The top of el Raton's head lay forgotten in the gutter across the street. ~ Anson Scott

Andrea was a pretentious half-wit nymphomaniac flight attendant with a smokin' body and an ecstasy habit. She was also, for lack of a better term, my girlfriend. ~ Anson Scott

I like being able to be a man. ~ Anson Mount

Some experts suggest you announce that you have a gun and state your intent to use it. The theory assumes the home intruder would rather avoid armed conflict and flee the scene. I subscribe to the "surprise them with a bullet" technique. ~ Anson Scott

If it's coin operated in El Paso, you can bet the Cartel owns it. ~ Anson Scott

When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it's a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them ~ Tom Dorrance

ANSON: I want to give you the world, but a man like me doesn't have the world to give. [He ... leveled her with a gold-eyed look that ripped at her heart.] I can give you me. ~ T.S. Joyce

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time. ~ Anson Mount

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. ~ Anson Mount

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear. ~ Anson Mount

Coffee?" Santangelo calls down to us. We both look up. He,Ben, and Raffy are hanging over the side.
"Is it espresso?" Anson Choi asks behind us.
"Freshly percolated," Ben answers. "You should see the gadgets they have up here."
Anson Choi aims a begging look at Griggs.
"You want to sell out over a coffee?" Griggs asks him with disgust.
"They've got muffins as well," I tell them. "Double chocolate chip. His mum made them."
Griggs gets up and holds out a hand to me. "Truce. ~ Melina Marchetta

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church! ~ Anson Mount

I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot. ~ Anson Mount

You can talk so much. The proof is how you compete to the guy next to you and if a guy makes a mistake, you've got to be there to pick him up and not put him down. ~ Anson Carter

Anson looked searchingly at her. His eyes moved over her body. He thought: you meet a woman and she starts a chemical reaction in you. You think there is no one like her in the world, then something happens, and it is finished. She means less to me now than the used plate after a good meal, and how little can that be? ~ James Hadley Chase

Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic. ~ Anson Mount

If it hadn't been for the tequila shots at the taco stand, I'd like to think I would have turned and walked away in a state of moral indignation. But the reality was that a platoon of Marines couldn't have kept me out of that hot tub. It was an auspicious start to an otherwise doomed relationship. I should have just enjoyed the first night of debauchery and walked away, but never one to let good sense in the way of good sex, I stuck around for the ride. ~ Anson Scott

I went on a Saturday afternoon, once more cutting through Dorrance Marstellar's cornfield ~ Stephen King

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork. ~ Anson Mount

ANSON: I'll work on making it enough. And I'll work at being enough. For you. ~ T.S. Joyce

'Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple. ~ Anson Williams

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people. ~ Anson Mount

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning. ~ Anson Jones

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up. ~ Anson Mount

I love getting paid to ride a horse. ~ Anson Mount

I feel there's no need to overstate. ~ Anson Mount

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television. ~ Anson Mount