David Ortiz Quotes

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

David Ortiz

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• I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Children
  • Want
  • Girl

• The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Good
  • Quality

• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Good
  • Brooklyn
  • Funky

• Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Together
  • Strong
  • Team

• I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Tough

• Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Responsibility
  • Obstacles

• Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Christmas
  • Something

• I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Passion
  • Romantic

• I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Believe
  • Game
  • I Believe

• If you enjoy reading something, read it.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • You
  • Reading
  • Enjoy

• They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Fun

• Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country
  • Devil

• If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Find
  • Thing
  • Keep

• The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Bad

• It is as difficult for Chinese politicians to get a real smile from the people as it is to keep the sky blue and clouds white.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Real
  • Smile

• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

  

  Andre Gide
  • Up
  • Men
  • Peace

• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Smart
  • Create

• Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

  

  William Allen White
  • Men
  • America
  • Fighting

• The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Stop
  • Best

• The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

  

  David Ortiz