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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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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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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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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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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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I'm like a junkie for writing.
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The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. We must compress into a single second what was held before in a sixty-second minute.
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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.
