And at the back of my mind, I wanted to prove myself first in the commercial world.
"At the back of my mind everything I do and am doing is for my players, " he said.
"It was always at the back of my mind that I was to keep them happy, " she said.
So the knowledge was there, sitting at the back of my mind, waiting to come true, when the doctor told me.
The result from last week is now firmly at the back of my mind and the difficulties this excellent English team pose are right back at the front.
There was just something nagging at the back of my mind that he was not quite the Carl Froch that I have got to know over the past few years.
As a writer, I know I do some of my best work while procrastinating, and my most interesting thoughts often come to me after letting something simmer at the back of my consciousness for a while.
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"I had getting back in the England set up at some point at the back of my mind, but I mostly wanted to get overs under my belt at Surrey and stay injury free, " added Tremlett.
But in truth there is always a little bit of fear at the back of my mind about making some fundamental editorial mistake precisely because our audience invest such a huge amount of confidence in our ability to get things right.
There was a tightness in my chest that released, and seeing the smiling faces of my CS family looking back at me was one of the greatest gifts of the day.
John sent me a picture of it on my mobile while I was at the back of the queue in the post office it was the last day for mail-order returns.
But I will say, after I got out of slavery and looked back to where my dehumanization took place at the hands of the Muslims, I saw I was not alone.
And I've made very clear, and I'll amplify in my speech to Parliament tomorrow, that even as we make a whole host of important fiscal decisions back home, this is right up there at the top of my priority list.
And then he drove up to my destination and he threw his arm over the back of the chair and he looked at me directly in my eyes and he pleaded with me, he said, please don't let this happen to America.
This, too, failed to produce any additional yardage, but I did strain my back more regularly and would often lose my balance embarrassingly at the finish of a swing.
Looking back at my years on the wrong side of the law, it seems almost too easy.
"When I went into the toilets I felt this blow on the back of my head and I turned round to see the soldier coming at me with his baton raised, " he said.
And when I look back at my own tenure as the CEO of my own company, I realize that most of the skills that made me successful in product development, marketing, management, or just collecting our receivables were just footnotes to that crash course in human nature that I got from sales.
The day I returned to work I went back to my routine of going to the gym and stopping at my favorite local deli afterwards for lunch.
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In Prague, my friend showed me something I will not forget: he got me to lie on my back and peer at the underside of some piece of ambassadorial furniture.
Harking back to the question I posed at the end of my last post, the Rock sale could therefore be seen as a harbinger of eurozone meltdown - just as its collapse in 2007 marked, for many, the beginning of the original credit crunch.
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On the first night of my homestay, I ate dinner at the CBT office and then slipped and sloshed back down the road toward my house.
The first green of evening, my mother had always called it, sitting on the back step at home, watching the Peruvian lilies and the montbretia fade into the gloaming.
So I drove about five miles per hour the rest of the way back to Kep, using only my front brake and sparingly at that.
The liquid hits the back of my throat like an electric shock, at once bitter and sweet.
For a moment I focus on the glass and catch the faint, honest reflection of my eye staring back at me, a lock of gray straggly hair in its way.
The day that I decided I wanted to live, I went back to school, made straight As, graduated at the top of my class, on the National Honor Society, became the first person in my family on either side, to graduate from college.
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