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.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Bad
  • Thing
  • Defined

• 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.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Doctors
  • Washington

• 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.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Hold
  • Shape
  • Our

• 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.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• 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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Losing

• My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Care
  • Daughter

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• 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.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Same

• 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.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Men
  • Pleasure
  • Details

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Earth
  • Promise
  • Hell

• 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.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Victory
  • Will

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'

  

  Darren Star
  • Up
  • Law
  • City

• I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart - my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle, my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Moving

• My only window into the Internet is Twitter because I am afraid of the Internet. I need my mom to hold my hand if I'm going to read anything about me.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Hand
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Don Baylor
  • World
  • Player