34 Quotes by Dave Foreman


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    Say that the percentage rate of growth slows from 2.1 percent to 1.7 percent a year over a few years while the absolute increase of yearly growth goes from sixty-four million to seventy-nine million to ninety-three million in that time. How can this be? Because there are more women giving birth at the lower rate.

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    Let’s face it, our representative democracy has broken down. Our government primarily represents the big money boys and stacks the deck against reform movements. Playing only by the system’s rules limits you.

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    For me there were some deep flaws in his relationship with the council that were fatal for me, but his overall body of work was very productive.

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    He's banged up and a result he's mentally banged up too. We rely on him for a whole lot. Everything kind of falls on his shoulders and he takes more pride in that than most people. That leads to a little more fatigue. I'm not a big fan - no coach is - of missed practice time, but we got to hope that if we sneak some days off in he'll be more energized.

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    He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

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    I was looking at my calendar when we coming back on the bus, and I didn't realize we were gone from home that much. I'll have to say it was 16 days well spent.

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    I think when you have experience in those (new) situations, it does help you. You have a chance to create a culture. I just think you've got to have everybody on the same agenda, everyone from ticket sales to the president of the hockey team. Whenever you go into a new endeavor, everybody is new. Everybody is trying to get things done.

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    I think we've seen through the years that a guy coming back after missing a full year is still a little rusty. But the end game is not whether he makes the team April 1, the end game is we want this guy to have a long career with the Pirates.

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