"He got me there, and I figured I could get him here, " Woods told NBC Sports.
When he came in as Newcastle manager he got me enjoying football again and playing the way I can.
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.
He also got me thinking about a box that has been sitting on my desk for several weeks: A Microsoft Touch Mouse, which features a surface studded with touch sensors, so you can perform gestures on the mouse, the same way you might on a touch pad.
And that's when he asked me - and he got strong and sort of gruff and he said, tell me, what are you doing?
He tells me he's got two daughters married to Italians, who live in Tuscany.
While Painter is a gifted story teller, the best one he told me is how he got elected president of his class at West Point.
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He has brought the skills he learnt at Manchester United and under Alex Ferguson to his coaching and he got the best out of me when he was at Palace.
"During his toast he started talking about New Zealand traditions, which got me worried that he and my brother were about to throw on their grass skirts, " she says.
As I walked away, he got up and followed me into my apartment building at 63 Wall Street.
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"I just kept pressing, and he got the better of me, " said Agassi.
It never upset me because even if former coach Sven-Goran Eriksson was at one of our games, I presumed he was watching someone else and towards the end I never got the feeling he would pick me.
As the guards dragged him to solitary, he promised that he would beat on me a little more once he got out, which he shouldn't have, because, of course, the guards then gave him more solitary than they might have otherwise.
He told me that he can still remember when he first got hooked by Linux.
One 45-year-old IT manager at this stage told me that when he got up in the morning, he started to cry.
As he got to work, he assured me that all you need for babka are great ingredients, common sense and a bit of inner Zen.
"I walked into the office and he got up, smiled, gave me a big hug and he said, 'Now, I'll tell you what, man, that's one of the things I like about you, you say what's on your mind, ' " the vice president recounted.
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So he left, got home, everything was very quiet, phoned me at midnight to say that he had been attempted break-in ransacking by eight people, he'd fired a shot in the air and they had left.
But I was also hoping he would give me some tips on the media, because he's got that quiet, reserved personality -- (laughter) -- and I was figuring I'd stay out of trouble if Tony gave me some advice on that.
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"My mother rode for the British team and she got me started, " he tells BBC Sport.
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