Bob Uecker Quotes
In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.
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The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding
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The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
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Who's to say because you're just a basketball player, or you are a basketball player, who's to say you can't chime in on other subjects or other important topics?
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In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
