Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away. Bubba Smith
What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life. Michael Vick
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible. Julian Barnes
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? Logan Pearsall Smith
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Cicero
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Willa Cather
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.Stewart Brand
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game. Michael Jordan
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. Harlan Coben
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's. Anthony Bourdain
When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in. Brene Brown
When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball. Cal Ripken Jr
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over. Bill Walton
When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away. Andy Roddick
When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years. Pete Sampras
When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away. Paul Pierce
Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality. Dwyane Wade
Whether I moved people to throw punches or cry, I did that through my art and what I do. I would never take that experience away to race against a speedometer. Or play on a team. Johnny Weir
Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me. Steven Lopez
Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal. Jackie Joyner Kersee