Don Baylor Quotes
I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?
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I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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I don't go into a game with specific targets. I don't pinpoint an opposing player before a match, trying to exploit a kind of weakness.
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We agreed that we're going to work on procedure... we're going to try to sit down and work out a framework, we'll meet tomorrow, ... We didn't want to get into the policy side before we had a procedure worked out.
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I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
