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american-athlete baseball good life piece spend sports turns
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. Jim Bouton
american-athlete opportunity
They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here. Tony Oliva
american-athlete good hit knew throw
When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running. Juan Marichal
american-athlete thomas
Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night. Thomas Hearns
american-athlete
I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.
american-athlete man
That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
american-athlete born lived
Born in Baltimore, I lived there 1 month. Jim Coleman
american-athlete consume media might otherwise personal relationships spend time violence worrying
Even more worrying is the violence we do to our personal relationships when we let media consume time we might otherwise spend with each other. Hugh Mackay
american-athlete barrel drive hit ready relaxed swing wave weight
Be relaxed and don't wave the bat, don't clench it. Be ready to hit down with the barrel of the bat. Just swing it and let the weight drive the ball. Paul Waner
became dad jaded
As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long. David Chang
became came people spend stuff time worry worrying
People came through. They all came together, they didn't worry about ratings, the stuff we spend way to much time worrying about. They became a community. Cokie Roberts
became began choose jobs majority manual middle
Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather.
became innocent inside men performing prayers sunset unjustly
Approximately 18 innocent men who were inside the mosque performing sunset prayers were killed and became martyrs. They were killed unjustly and wrongfully.
became good gymnast main terrible unless
I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the floor. I was terrible at everything else, especially beam. Unfortunately, you can't be a gymnast unless you're good at all of the apparatuses, so I became a competitive cheerleader. I was just the main tumbler for my squad. Josie Loren
became dwight eisenhower
I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did. John Henrik Clarke
became came financial
When I came into the NFL, it was an escape. It became my way to survive, not just in a financial way. Curtis Martin
became behind clear director next picked rapidly reduce reliance science
When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent. Samantha Power
became build building chief goal life nice sleep
When I became chief of the life squad, my goal was to build a nice building where we could sleep and get out faster.
force game reasons score system
The way to score with our system is to force turnovers and to not give up big plays. That is one of the reasons that the game went the way it did.
force-fields atoms hierarchy
Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields. Deepak Chopra
force-fields talking medical
I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.
force-fields break-through broken
What's up, Hachi?" "Someone......Just slipped through my force-field." "!!!" "A soul reaper?" "No. The Hachigyo Sogai (Twin Cliffs) I set is an original technique I developed after I became a visored. It can't be broken by a soul reaper's kido." "Then who is it? Another visored?" "I don't know. The strange thing is that they didn't break through the force-field. They Slipped through. Not even a visored should be able to do that." "Then, who or what is it?" "...It's coming." "It's a Human?" "Uh...Um...E-excuse me...where's the Bathroom? Tite Kubo
force-fields nuts mags
Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field. Suzanne Collins
force genetic happy hope living thousands
Homosexuality is not a genetic predisposition. If someone is happy living that way, you can't force them to come out of it. But we give hope to thousands like myself. Alan Chambers
force observation observers
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself. Georges Cuvier
force fought foul gets guys major max middle proud suffer time
Max has been a major force for us all season. Any time he's not on the court, we suffer in the middle a little bit. He does so much for our team. Any time he gets in foul trouble, we know it's going to be tough. Those guys still fought hard. I'm very proud of them.
forces hope none powerful
Of all of the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hope Charles Sawyer
life motivational inspiration
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. Ben Nicholas
life motivational perseverance
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. Babe Ruth
life and-love moments
Live life messy and love every moment of it. Ashley Smith
life hate love-is
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love. Baruch Spinoza
life dream killers
Isolation is a dream killer. Barbara Sher
life believe forever
I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
life responsibility bewildered
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. Arthur Miller
life lying ridiculous
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
life beautiful writing
Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it. Arthur Adamov
perfect age perfect-happiness
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well Jane Austen
perfect goal rough-drafts
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. Jane Smiley
perfect no-friends killers
The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. Brent Weeks
perfect church sin
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. Charles Spurgeon
perfect virtue habit
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit. Aristotle
perfect melancholy fine
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit. Ben Jonson
perfect financial economic
She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture. Eleanor Smeal
perfect today wish
You have to play perfect and wish that he is not going to be at his best. I think today these two things happened. Carlos Moya
perfect sorts storm timing
This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available. Stu Jackson
robert
I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself. Chin Han
tennis green packers
Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it. Arthur Ashe
tennis skirts legs
It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs Anna Kournikova
tennis tables way
I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing. Anastasia Myskina
tennis watches levels
In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week? Ron Livingston
tennis way backgrounds
I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it. Stefan Edberg
tennis easy enough
In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more. Samantha Stosur
tennis want able
When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.
tennis transition sometimes
It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery. Rafael Nadal
tennis enemy losing
Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.