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.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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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.
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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.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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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.
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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.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.
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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.
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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.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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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.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?
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I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.
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If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.
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I'm a golf junkie. I watch every tournament pretty much. I watch interviews. I watch warm-up routines. All that stuff.
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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.
