John Robinson Quotes (26 Quotes)

I think there's a moment here, ... Notre Dame is becoming a formidable opponent again. They're both back. This is good stuff. That's when this game is at its best, when both teams are good. I wouldn't want to miss this.

I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.

So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.

Stacy had this more fluid style. You meet him, he's just such a nice guy. Tony's an awesome guy too, but back then, he was a real aggressive kid and they were in such a different place. Stacy was so sensitive and at the same time so competitive when it came to his skating.

The laboratory was established with a gift from Reynolds with no strings attached. We are allowed to study what we want, publish what we want, and interpret the data as we think it should be interpreted.

Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.

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I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know

They are a national championship-caliber team. They are ... as good as any team in the nation.

For me, the thing that made me want to do this is that I could see myself back in the game. When we retired, we all felt remote from college football. This brings me back in the game.

What I remember is standing on the sideline, thinking, 'Hey, that's a pretty good trick. I remember the noise was unbelievable. You could feel it on your face.

You know, if they ask me to be on the jury, I'd do it. That's a 14-year old girl. She's got her whole life ahead of her.

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.

This is one of those situations where the Legislature created, with all good intention in mind, a bad business environment. Now small processors will be able to purchase the bond through FAME.

Stacy was this really controlled, fluid skater. And that really carried into his personality. I had been snowboarding my whole life. I went to surf camp in Southern California every year until a few years ago, so I had been surfing for a long time as well. I had more of the surfer style of skating which was cool 'cause it's kind of what I needed to do in the role.

I can't argue with the fact that experience is valuable. But I think you ought to factor in the maturity of a kid.

I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.

There was a double-wide mobile home directly across from (New Prospect Baptist) church, ... The mobile home even had tie-down straps on it, but it was thrown clear across the highway. Part of the mobile home struck the church, and part of the frame ended up in the woods behind the church.

This kid has got some Bobby Layne in him or some Terry Bradshaw in him. Or maybe a combination of both. He has been a delight to watch.

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

Two mobile homes were demolished on (U.S.) Highway 70, ... and there was one injury in one of those mobile homes.

It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

I've bought a red sweater and I'm going to go in there and cheer like crazy for the Trojans. I'm going to go to Chicago, go to the rally, watch the USC band at the rally and soak in all of it.

The most important thing is who you hire on your staff, ... You have to hire people who are solid coaches in the NFL. Many college coaches don't know NFL people.