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baseball football country
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. Bobby Fischer
baseball play republic
I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old. Albert Pujols
baseball trying important
I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.
baseball war names
Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. Douglas MacArthur
baseball new-york father
Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law. Don Baylor
baseball want
Where do you want it? Don Drysdale
baseball hate games
I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.
baseball book my-favorite
I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13. Dylan O'Brien
baseball boston yankees
The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition. Andrea Tantaros
father paris skulls
Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to. Richard Leakey
father sick suffering
I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering. T. D. Jakes
father reading eyebrows
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading. Harper Lee
father emotional broken
For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile. Iyanla Vanzant
father son difficult-relationship
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons. Salman Rushdie
father would-be roles
You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited. Sam Brownback
father land native
Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers? Friedrich Schiller
father
My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. Lawrence Eagleburger
father son two
I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis. Phil Collins
player thinking games
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. C. S. Lewis
player florida color
But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built. Urban Meyer
player swings arms
Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters. Rogers Hornsby
player numbers league
I was always geared towards either wanting to finish number one or be number one as far as the best player that I could be, or be the best player at my position in the league. I wanted that to be a constant reminder to my teammates that they looked to their leader who is wearing that number, this is what you should strive for as well. Warren Moon
player guitar doubt
Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived. Zakk Wylde
player decision playing-chess
Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player. William Golding
players spoken
You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have. Roy Keane
player thinking judging
Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them. Ned Colletti
player best-players
The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing. Paul Ince