Don Zimmer Quotes

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

Don Zimmer

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• What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Heart
  • Imagination
  • Emotional

• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffers
  • Complains
  • Cart

• My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • World
  • Done
  • History

• Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Essential

• I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Better
  • Gym
  • Eating

• I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • World
  • Good
  • Job

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Strength
  • Gain
  • Surroundings

• When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Game
  • Effort

• In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • People
  • Simple
  • Language

• When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Writing
  • Story
  • First

• Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Time
  • Desire

• Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Truth
  • Everyone
  • Define

• My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Father
  • Ear
  • Hank

• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Place
  • Caring
  • Surroundings

• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Weird

• The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Children
  • School

• The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

  

  Mark Dacascos
  • Mind
  • Bad

• This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Like
  • Baseball
  • Wall