A Quote by Alfred Sheinwold

One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.

Alfred Sheinwold

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Advantage Atrocious Bad Bidding Contracts Get Playing Practice

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Alfred Sheinwold
American - Athlete
January 26, 1912 - March 8, 1997

No matter what contract anyone is on it is important you are playing football. It is a short career and you have to earn a living but at the same time playing football is the best way to get better contracts anyway.

Danny Ings

When I saw the bidding start a few teams were going at it, and I was thinking 'wow I'm actually going to get to go to India for sure,' so I was even happier than when the bidding started because I knew for sure that at least I would get to be associated with a franchise.

Jofra Archer

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.

Ali Farahnakian

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

Ronny Cox

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

Mark Knopfler

A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room.

Hilary Hahn

Guys that are playing in the last year of their contracts are playing for their livelihood and that tends to come off as selfish.

Lorenzen Wright

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

There's a roller coaster effect when you're playing good. Everything seems to go your way. But once you start playing bad, you're playing bad.

Larry Johnson

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Quincy Jones

That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.

Tom Watson

Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.

Hari

We sign $1 million contracts in Asia and Russia and get treated like royalty but when we are here in America we are flying in the back of the plane in economy, playing back-to-backs.

Liz Cambage

The only time being in the middle class hurts you is if you're in the middle class with players who are on bad contracts. If you're in the middle class and all your players are on good contracts then I don't think that's a problem.

Daryl Morey

We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play.