Bill Veeck Quotes
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.
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I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
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Americans are in need of an all-of-the-above energy approach, and when you think about all-of-the-above, you think about wind, solar, hydrogen, think about all those groovy technologies I really like.
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Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.
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People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
