Bob Uecker Quotes

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Bob Uecker

• Service
• Baseball

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Thought

• CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Going
  • Minute
  • Fired

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
  • Will

• I'm kind of an antsy person.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Antsy

• China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growth

• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Size
  • January
  • Immigrant

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Collaboration

• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Party
  • Problem

• What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nature
  • Education

• I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Think
  • Hate

• There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Music
  • Between

• All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Teach

• My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

  

  Natassia Gail Zolot
  • Women
  • She
  • Mom

• Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered as a prize a not particularly expensive medal, a laurel wreath, and a bowl of beef stew. This was the race that, on one memorable occasion, nobody knew who actually won.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • Fun

• What musicals need is a new me.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Me
  • Need
  • New

• Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Husband

• After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

  

  Bob Uecker
  • Service
  • Baseball