1,572 Quotes About Became

When we got back to Philadelphia and we talked about it, we just said, we got a second chance here - we got a second chance in life, forget about basketball. It just made every guy grow up - I think every guy became a little more mature, a little more focused on what's important in life, and I think it had a cumulative effect on our team.

I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

When I became mayor, North Platte really wasn't a player, ... Within a year, partnerships were formed with department heads and businesses, with DEVCO (Development Corporation of North Platte) and with the chamber. If we continue to work together, things will continue to work.

I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.

In the space of a few minutes she became hostile and very aggressive. It was an extremely ugly situation and I needed to control it.

It became very evident, very quickly through our investigation, that was not the case.

I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.

I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.

I never wanted a championship as much as I did that first one, ... After the first one in 1964, the titles seemed to come in droves. I also think I became a better coach after winning that first championship. I still continued to emphasize winning the conference, but I became a better tournament coach, putting less pressure on the players.