Randy Johnson Quotes

I can’t believe it’s you. Wait, why does my chart say Randy Johnson?” Reid chuckled at the ridiculous name he used for anonymity. “It’s an alias.” Wanting to erase the pained look from whatever had happened before he arrived, he gave her a wicked smile and added, “And sometimes a state of being.” Her brows gathered together for the few seconds it took to sink in, then her cheeks flushed with color and her eyes grew wide. “Reid!

I can't believe it's you. Wait, why does my chart say Randy Johnson?" Reid chuckled at the ridiculous name he used for anonymity. "It's an alias and sometimes a state of being.

The federal government, in its own way, had cut off his balls. It had symbolically lynched Jack Johnson.

Randy Shughart and Gary Gordon, two Delta operators, won posthumous Medals of Honor for taking the initiative to secure one of the Black Hawk helicopter crash sites until Rangers could reinforce them. They knew the risk. They saw the enemy closing in before they even landed. At the White House during their Medal of Honor ceremony, the father of a Delta operator became unglued, furious that he was to receive the Medal of Honor from President Clinton, who in the father’s words was too cowardly to accept a draft to the Vietnam War at the behest of the president at the time, Lyndon Johnson. He believed President Clinton unworthy to bestow the award on his late son. His wife apologized to me and the other officers for her husband. But we felt the same way.

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Oh, I wish it were that easy. There are some things you just have to try. Try and fail. Try and fail better.” It was a good line. She hadn’t written it, but she doubted there were many Beckett fans in Randy Johnson’s listening audience.

Even though the grand jury refused to indict, authorities held the two boxers in jail for twenty-four days. They were treated well, however, and sparred daily for the amusement of their jailers. In his book Papa Jack, Randy Roberts claims that Li’l Artha’ really learned to box during these jailhouse sparring sessions with the old pro, Joe Choynski. A short time later Johnson left Galveston for a career in the prize ring. In 1903 he won the world’s black heavyweight title. And five years after that, in Sydney, Australia, he defeated Britain’s Tommy Burns in fourteen rounds to become the first black ever to win the heavyweight championship of the world. Arthur John Johnson—or Jack Johnson, as he was better known—never returned to Galveston, not that he would have been welcome. When Islanders read about Johnson’s famous affinity for white women,