Chili Davis Quotes

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Chili Davis

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• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Brain

• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Together
  • More

• Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Waste Of Time

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Time
  • Think
  • Civil Rights

• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Weird

• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Money
  • Vacation

• When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Kind

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Time
  • High

• I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Eyes

• After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• As you move through the application process, keep refining the way you present yourself. Like any skill, you'll only get better with practice, and you'll only hurt yourself if you get discouraged too early. This is one race that's definitely a marathon, not a sprint.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Present
  • Practice
  • Hurt

• People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Fact
  • Grasp

• People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Mysteries
  • Obsess

• Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

  

  Chili Davis
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Baseball