Bob Uecker Quotes
Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.
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Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.
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Everybody, yeah. Rock your body, yeah.Everybody, yeah, rock your body right.Backstreet's back, alright!
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I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.
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Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.
