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I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.
Glenn Turner
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Cricketer
Approach
Battle
Cricket
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Interesting
International
Intriguing
Involved
New Zealand
Not Interested
Short Term
Sides
Team
Teams
Uphill
Zealand
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
Gareth Bale
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Soccer Player
Attacking
Block
Champions League
Premier League
Team
Winning
Champions
Defend
Premier
Teams
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All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I've thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we've got 13 scouts traveling the country. We're trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It's very hard to do. What I've learned is it's always character first.
Joe Gibbs
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Football Coach
Nfl
Right People
Scouts
Teams
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For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him... that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team's stars, stuff like that.
Marv Levy
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Football Coach
Cheating
Locker Room
Nfl
Offering
Paranoid
Poisoning
Wiring
Allen
Assistant
George
Locker
Meal
Teams
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Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
James Wolcott
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Journalist
Running
Humor
Character
Defective
Familiar
Harder
Machinery
Sitcom
Team
Episodic
Explain
Factory
Gap
Genetic
Pull
Teams
Widening
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Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
Gary Bettman
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Counsel
Baseball
Hockey
Nhl
Owners
Team
Crafted
Exceptions
One Or Two
Union
Suited
Teams
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In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators.
John Battelle
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Author
Computers
Technology
Accuracy
Beats
Company
Data
Essence
Google
Humans
Used
Actionable
Address
Automatically
Read
Extract
Street
Images
In The Past
Level
Meets
Network
Render
Teams
Trained
Using
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If we want leaders to make good decisions amid huge complexity, and learn how to build great teams, then we should send them to learn from people who've proved they can do it. Instead of long summer holidays, embed aspirant leaders with Larry Page or James Dyson so they can experience successful leadership.
Dominic Cummings
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Experience
Leadership
Complexity
Huge
Larry
Successful
Summer
Good Experience Great
Leadership Good Great
Build
Decisions
Holidays
Instead
James
Learn
Page
Proved
Send
Teams
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The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo.
Seth Shostak
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Astronomer
Competing
Data
Hardware
Moon
Spacecraft
Awarded
Photo
Governments
Nearby
Roam
Robotic
Send
Teams
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Companies that acquire startups for their intellectual property, teams, or product lines are acquiring startups that are searching for a business model. If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies that are executing.
Steve Blank
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Entrepreneur
Acquire
Executing
Intellectual Property
Predictable
Revenue
Business Model
Searching
Startups
Stream
Teams
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If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it's all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.
Lyoto Machida
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Mixed Martial Artist
Federer
Retirement
Roger
Soccer
Tennis
How Many Times
Row
Teams
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My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.
Will Yun Lee
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Blood
Competing
Masters
Teams
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The big difference between league football in England and Spain is that more teams compete here. In Spain, it is usually only two teams going for the title, which is not necessarily a bad thing because you get great matches between the two, but I think the English league is better for being more competitive.
David Silva
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Spain
Bad Thing
Big Difference
Compete
Matches
Teams
Title
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Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.
Randi Weingarten
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Attorney
Curriculum
Engaging
Enrichment
Well Being
Broad
Center
Teams
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Mauricio Pochettino - he was my captain at PSG and I always knew he would become a manager. He has taken a lot of influence from Marcelo Bielsa, who was his coach with Argentina; they used to talk about things a lot, and now you can see that his teams are really aggressive, both when attacking and defending.
Mikel Arteta
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Aggressive
Argentina
Attacking
Influence
Taken
Captain
Coach
Defending
Manager
Teams
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The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.
Lance Loud
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Television Personality
Aids
Doctors
Fragile
Shortcomings
Supportive
Attentive
Bulk
Gently
Make Up
Nurses
Patients
Strengths
Surrounded
Teams
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
Al Kaline
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Baseball Player
Sports
Arms
Baseball
Basketball
Skills
Soccer
Stronger
Sports Today Football
Athletes
Compete
Outfield
Teams
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The Trump people make it extremely hard to figure out what's going on with their businesses, so we've done things like try to figure out all the people, the charities who rented out ballrooms and hotel rooms, all the NBA teams that stay at his hotels, people that pay him a lot of money and have other choices.
David Fahrenthold
/
Choices
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Nba
Pay
Rooms
Trump
Money Done People
Businesses
Charities
Extremely
Figure
Money People Done
Teams
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The Midland community is huge into softball. They have a lot of competitive men's teams. We played at a beautiful stadium, and our games would be packed every weekend. I'm pretty sure people have my signature on softballs and they don't even know. Because we would just sign so many autographs all of the time.
Elana Meyers
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Bobsledder
Autographs
Softball
Packed
Signature
Stadium
Teams
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We prided ourselves at Oregon, where teams said they were going to try to beat us down and try to manhandle us, and maybe in the first quarter they were running with us, but it was just, 'Let's see how they are come the fourth quarter when they're tired, and they've had 70 to 80 plays coming at them non-stop.'
Spencer Paysinger
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Fourth
Non Stop
Oregon
Tired
Beat
Plays
Quarter
Teams
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There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.
Jimmy Johnson
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Football Player
Efficient
Football Team
Pads
Practice
Time Football Long
Bill
Period
Extremely
Long Period
Teams
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There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.
Gary Bettman
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Counsel
Pittsburgh
Vigilant
Category
Teams
Unnecessarily
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I've managed many people in my career. I've managed very diverse teams. And it's interesting because what I've found over time is that when it would come to bonus time or raise time, I would hear from the gentlemen, 'I want to make X.' I don't think I ever heard from a woman who worked for me, 'I want to make X.'
Sallie Krawcheck
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Manager
Bonus
Diverse
Time Me People
Gentlemen
Teams
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Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.
Don Yaeger
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Journalist
Blue
Championship
Gold
Medal
Mike
Months
Usa
Winning
Coach
Consider
Devils
Duke
Gold Medal
Head Coach
Honors
Leading
Led
National
National Championship
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Olympic Gold Medal
Pretty Good
Teams
World Championship
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It's best not to think about winning or losing trades anyway, because the best ones work out for both teams. But, as a rule, if you're the team that's selling - if you're out of it, and you're trading with a team that's in it - you usually have the pick of just about their whole farm system, with a few exclusions.
Theo Epstein
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Manager
Selling
Farm
Teams
Trades
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The big question on everyone's mind is, 'Did Tim Donaghy fix games?' The answer is no. I didn't need to fix them. I usually knew which team was going to win based on which referees had been assigned to the game, their personalities, and the relationships they had with the players and coaches of the teams involved.
Tim Donaghy
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Coaches
Games
Involved
Assigned
Based
Big Question
Game Mind Win
Personalities
Question
Relationships
Teams
Tim
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One of the things I've said to teams and players from time to time - especially when things are going well like we had them going in Orlando - is that you better appreciate it and enjoy it because things change quickly in this game. You know, it's tough for guys to really think it will change on them, but it does.
Stan Van Gundy
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Basketball Coach
Orlando
Change Time Game
Change Time Better
From Time To Time
Teams
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Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.
Justin Rosenstein
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Positive
Great
Endless
Finite
Found
Great Idea
Impact
Life Is Short
Passion
Plenty
Positive Impact
Youth
Unknown
Need
Alike
Established
Own
Idea
Companies
Short
Giant
Intersection
Opportunities
Startups
Teams
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Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.
Jill Biden
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Wife Of The Vice President Of The United States
Average
Graduates
Military
Nine
Adjust
By The Time
He Or She
Schools
Teams
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In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.
Rupert Murdoch
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Business Person
Sports
Agree
Alive
Australian
Decent
Demand
Australians
Competitive
Condemned
Ensure
Intolerable
Ours
Schools
Teams
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I'll always thank all of the teams I played for from the bottom of my heart because they all helped me grow as a person and a footballer, but the three years I spent in Naples were fantastic. That city gave me everything - my name, maturity, and international recognition. I get very emotional when Naples is mentioned.
Edinson Cavani
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Footballer
Maturity
Naples
Recognition
Mentioned
Teams
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Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.
Clayton M. Christensen
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Disruptive
Groups
Organized
Resources
Innovations
Specifically
Suggest
Teams
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I was on some bad teams, and I played bad as a young player, certainly, at times. And that all mounts. Yeah, that all mounts. The perception. Everything that goes into that. And so, yeah, I think to kind of get over the hump of that, to change perception, it can be difficult. It's a tall task. And it takes a long time.
Alex Smith
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American Football Player
Difficult
Long Time
Perception
Yeah
Time Change Long
Played
Certainly
Change Time Long
Goes
Hump
Takes
Task
Teams
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The decision to join Stripe and run 'Increment' was a pretty easy one for me: It was an opportunity to be impactful, to collect and share best practices from the most effective engineering teams in the world. 'Increment' is a step toward flattening the distance between the Silicon Valley elite and developers everywhere.
Susan Fowler
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Developers
Distance
Engineering
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Collect
Effective
Elite
Increment
Join
Practices
Stripe
Teams
Valley
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With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use on the court. It's fun, and I don't take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I'm not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I'd rather let the match play out a bit first.
John Mcenroe
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Tennis Player
Chance
Court
Fun
Guy
Huge
Humorous
Numbers
Good Chance Myself
Bit
Broadcast
Show
Side
Match
Post
Quickly
Rather
Seriously
Teams
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
Ms Dhoni
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Next Level
Selected
District
Teams
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First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
Bud Grant
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American Football Head Coach
Sports
Cardinals
Color
Country
Dozen
Purple
Amateur
Anywhere
Distinguish
Exactly
First Of All
Teams
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Do I want to be in St. Louis forever? Of course. People from other teams want to play in St. Louis, and they're jealous that we're in St. Louis because the fans are unbelievable. So why would you want to leave a place like St. Louis to go somewhere else and make $3 million or $4 more million a year? It's not about the money.
Albert Pujols
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Baseball Player
Jealous
Somewhere Else
Unbelievable
Louis
St. Louis
Teams
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No matter how much you urge them to relax and how much you mean it, your child probably grapples with highly stressful environments away from home, whether it's where they go to school, the teams they play on, or the peers in their social circle. Most teenagers I know long for empathy from their parents about their struggle.
Rachel Simmons
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Author
Peers
Relax
Stressful
Circle
Environments
Teams
Teenagers
Urge
Your Child
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There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
Bill Simmons
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Sports Columnist
Basketball
Individualism
Lakers
Ongoing
Passing
Soccer
Teamwork
Tipping
Biggest
Favorite
Drawn
Edge
Eighties
Emphasized
Similarly
Teams
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A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.
David Robinson
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Basketball Player
Letting Go
Locker Room
Veteran
Bench
Letting
Locker
Teams
Veterans
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I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?'
Seth Gabel
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Actor
Division
Fringe
Intimidated
Alternate
Carry
Incredibly
Lee
Lincoln
Questioned
Teams
Unit
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Every league has its own culture, its own identity, and its own type of football. It's very physical in England, but technical skill comes to the fore in Spain, where everybody wants to play beautiful football. The standards are very high in Germany, too; the teams are physically strong, very disciplined, and very well organised.
Arjen Robben
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Soccer Player
Germany
Organised
Spain
Standards
Physically
Disciplined
Fore
Skill
Teams
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I think the free agent process is a little bit different because other major pro sports like the NBA or NHL, you're looking at 30 teams. You have 30 options. You don't really have that in this industry. There is one name that stands above all else, and that's WWE. So to really be on top, that's where you have to apply your trade.
Christian Cage
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Nba
Nhl
Wwe
Above
Agent
Apply
Major
Options
Pro
Stands
Teams
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It's important to me to defend the Canadian colours. And I don't just do it in tennis. I might now follow hockey as much as the average Canadian, but I support several Canadian teams. I'm a big fan of the Toronto Raptors. On top of that, I love my country, simple as that. It's a magnificent country; the people are really welcoming.
Milos Raonic
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Tennis Player
Average
Hockey
Just Do It
Magnificent
Tennis
Toronto
Big Fan
Colours
Defend
Teams
Welcoming
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At Harman, we had to reinvent ourselves so that we can compete on a global playing field. We did it by instituting a culture where teams can take calculated risks. But to inspire such a shift in mindset requires meaningful rewards across the ranks and freedom to experiment and innovate. I like to think of it as our courage culture.
Dinesh Paliwal
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Inspire
Meaningful
Mindset
Rewards
Calculated
Compete
Experiment
Innovate
Playing Field
Ranks
Reinvent
Shift
Teams
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There are so many websites I read; I look at everything from Slashdot to Ars Technica to the business technology sites, major newspapers like the 'New York Times,' and my local papers where I live, which cover the sports teams I'm involved with. There are about 20 sites we go to regularly, and I do use Twitter and Facebook as well.
Paul Allen
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Philanthropist
New York Times
Newspapers
Papers
Twitter And Facebook
Regularly
Sites
Teams
Websites
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Being passed up by teams because of my size made me hungry. I've seen a lot of first-round guys who come in and never really do nothing because they may not appreciate the opportunity because everything has been given to them. I think guys who come from the bottom understand how hard it is, so they appreciate the opportunities more.
Antonio Brown
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Bottom
Hungry
Passed
Teams
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I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Programmer
Gratitude
Providing
Generally
Objectively
Service
Teams
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There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.
Gary Bettman
/
Counsel
Chemistry
Grit
Luck
Parameters
Storytelling
Tied
Best Great Better
Skill
Teams
Wins
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