Bob Uecker Quotes
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
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We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
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Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever - what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that's not true. That's not true in my family.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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My grandma used to call my mother 'Tuppence' as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put it on my birth certificate. She thought I might get bullied.
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The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
