Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts
Robin Evan Robertswas a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who pitched primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies. He spent the latter part of his career with the Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, and Chicago Cubs. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 September 1926
CountryUnited States of America
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I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.
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Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.
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Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.
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Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.
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There are those of us who believe out of that faith tradition that God never puts more on us than we can bear, and yet there are times, I think, particularly given what you were up against, that we have to question whether or not we have the capacity, the ability, the wherewithal, to actually endure it.
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We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.
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You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL
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I think that number's high, ... I think the schools are safer than that shows.
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I'm speechless. To work for a company like Disney that believes in community and came up with the idea and saying, 'We want to donate to the Boys and Girls Club of the Gulf Coast.' Knowing it's very important to many people here, my family included, since we helped start the one in the Pass. And a million and half dollars is gonna go a long way. It's a nice start, great start.
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My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.
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We have good service, but everyone always wants better, ... Within the business community with the state and federal government centers here, Washington service is one that comes up frequently.
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With Pete's book and admitting all the things that a lot of people didn't know he had done - they really believed he hadn't bet on baseball - I think that kind of upset a lot of people that were rooting hard for Pete, ... The fact that he did bet on it, and what he was accused of he did, didn't contribute much to his possibility of getting voted in.
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There has been a lot of progress, but there is still much that needs to be done, and so while you need to celebrate the progress, and the things that are moving forward, you can't lose sight of all the work that needs to be done. I look around and I see that there is less debris, but I see that there is still debris that needs to be cleared.
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There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he's developed, before his hand is big enough to grip the ball correctly, will damage his arm.