Dorothy Allison

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

American Writer

Steve Prefontaine

If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I'll always wonder, 'What if...?

American Athlete

Owen Farrell

Of course there are technical aspects to it, but every kicker has his own style. You have to find your own way, what works for you. The most important thing is to be comfortable and at ease.

English Athlete

Harry Kane

It depends on how my football career goes, but when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game, it is something I would like to do.

George Blanda

I hate when people lump me in with kickers that lasted a long time. I have respect for guys like Morten Andersen, but I was a football player, not just a kicker.

American Football Player

John Waite

I was staring at a wall of photos and thought, 'What would that sound like if it was music?' And I guess that was the kicker. That's what got me going.

English Musician

Kasper Schmeichel

I'd love to make the switch over to NFL. I'd love to try it but I'm not really sure what position I'd play. I'd probably have to be a kicker.

Danish Footballer

Jason Chaffetz

I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.

American Politician

Adam Vinatieri

When you have an opportunity to help your team in crunch time - as a kicker - that's a dream come true.

Stephen Gostkowski

I admire every kicker in the NFL. I know how hard it is to be successful on a week-in-week-out basis.

Used specifically in sports to describe the person in charge of kicking the ball.

Sports Context

'Kicker' does not necessarily mean the player scores; they might just restart play.

Not Always Scoring

The term 'kicker' applies in various sports, not only American football or soccer.

Multiple Sports

In non-sporting contexts, it highlights a surprising or impactful additional point.

Additional Detail

Often used informally to add interesting information to a story or conversation.

Casual Conversations

It's typically used to emphasize the importance or unexpectedness of the information.

Emphasizes Importance

Used to introduce a surprising twist in a story or narrative.

Narrative Surprise

Can indicate the emotional or dramatic high point in a story.

Emotional Impact

Used in a technical or mechanical context, not related to people.

Technical Term

Refers to a device or part within a machine and not the entire machine itself.

Specific Device

Specifically used in financial contexts to refer to an investment feature.

Investment Jargon

Relates to an option in bonds where they can be cashed in early for profit.

Bond Redemption

 kicker I don't remember that I have no recollection of that moment and I've searched my memory banks because that is funny and I should remember doing it and I don't remember it and that was such an eye-opening transformative moment for me to think that the maybe the biggest impact I'd ever had on anyone's life a moment that had a woman walk up to a

Everyday leadership -...

 if I hold up my hands and wait a second millions of neutrinos just pass through it so you might be tempted to imagine that maybe the ghosts are made up of some particle like neutrinos and this enables in the pass through material but here's the kicker if they were they would not emit any light or

Ghost Particles PIPE...

 That's one factor among many, but youthfulness combined with unemployment, lack of education, and -- this is the kicker -- being male, is a deadly proposition. They're statistically correlated, all those risk factors, with youth, and they tend to relate to increases in violence.

Robert Muggah: How to...

 can be condescending we can be dismissive of anyone who doesn't agree with us in other words we can be politically right but emotionally wrong and incidentally that means that people don't like us right now here's the kicker conservatives are really nice I mean not

Sally Kohn: Let's try...

 we can be dismissive of anyone who doesn't agree with us. In other words, we can be politically right but emotionally wrong. And incidentally, that means that people don't like us. Right? Now here's the kicker. Conservatives are really nice.

Let's try emotional...

 working for the jet propulsion laboratory, and there our team was challenged to create a 3D visualization of the solar system, and today I want to show you what we've done so far. Now, the kicker is, everything I'm about to do here

Jon Nguyen: Tour the...

 and the kicker is that the claws that he did for me I got an a-minus on the collage he did for himself he got a B+ yeah and we still laugh about it to this day well after graduation life continued on

How math saved my life PIPE...

 And the whole class would say, "Shut up, Freeman." And there was a designated kicker every day. And so I was always asking this "Well how could we get more kids to really love to learn?"

Freeman Hrabowski: 4...

 when they're going to sporting events or when they're in the military. But here's the kicker. BEST study determined that web-based sex buying spikes at 2pm in the afternoon.

3 ways businesses can...

 his DNA into the bacterial cell but here's the kicker it doesn't do anything harmful not at first instead it silently slips into the bacterias own DNA and it just stays