Anson Quotes & Sayings

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself. — Anson Mount

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

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile. — Anson Mount

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

Thus was this expedition finished ... after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth; that though prudence, intrepidity and perseverence united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series of transactions they usually rise superior to its power, and in the end rarely fail of proving successful.
Voyage Around The World, 1751 — George Anson

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

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

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character. — Anson Mount

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing. — Anson Mount

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

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

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

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well. — Anson Mount

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

Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is far deeper and more restful than the sleep of the just, the righteous, and the innocent. — Dean Koontz

'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 love getting paid to ride a horse. — Anson Mount

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

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert. — Anson Mount

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

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

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

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

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

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 like being able to be a man. — 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'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people. — Anson Mount

Different horses have different personalities. They're just like people. — Anson Mount

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible. — Anson Mount

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

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

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

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

You don't need to like your protagonists. — Anson Mount

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

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that. — Anson Mount

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate. — Anson Mount

It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi takes off his shirt while he's playing the saxophone. Whoever's not chatting up a Cadet or a girl from Darling House or playing chess with the guys is watching the band. I turn into a
groupie. — Melina Marchetta

I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions. — Anson Mount

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

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

The Republic of Texas is no more. — Anson Jones

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood. — Anson Mount

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

What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up. — Anson Dorrance

People in the East Conference are starting to see how good the twins are. They make my job easy. I just go to the net and look for holes and they keep finding me. — Anson Carter

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

Love humanity for all its pleasures and faults. Remember to follow the instructions from above and your day will be blessed — J. Anson Brandes

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

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated ... and I trust so are his war stories. — Richard Finney

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

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

It's funny to think that Anson and I were here, in this same place, together all that time ago, and now here we are again. It makes me feel good, makes me feel that perhaps everything doesn't just disappear, that some things are circling back, taking the long way, but circling back towards me. — Helen Humphreys

If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn't a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire — Anson Dorrance

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 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

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

One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how great she is. By the time she's a high school freshman, she starts to believe it. By her senior year, she's fizzled out. Then there's her counterpart: the girl waiting in the wings who quietly and with determination decides she's going to make something of herself. Invariably, this humble, hardworking girl is the one who becomes the real player. — Anson Dorrance

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