Don Zimmer Quotes

Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.

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• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Night
  • Feel
  • Pressure

• Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • High
  • Education
  • Law

• The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Possible
  • Someone
  • Reach

• If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

  

  Mal Peet
  • Way
  • Try
  • Without

• Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Always

• In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Games
  • Facebook
  • Networks

• Women just love to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Women
  • Love
  • Shop

• There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Me
  • Belief

• In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Power
  • Kind
  • Breakfast

• I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Why
  • She

• You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Great
  • Job

• Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Children
  • Learn

• We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Job
  • Want
  • Achieve

• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Two
  • Test

• These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • My Life

• I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Remember
  • Being
  • I Remember

• In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Music
  • Words
  • Audience

• Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Body
  • Responsible

• They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

  

  Harry Hopkins
  • People
  • Projects
  • Foreign Language

• Yeah, I've been here, man. Where these guys are, I've been there. I guess it comes to a point in your career where it feels good for me to come back, to give something back like this.

  

  Kirby Puckett
  • Good
  • Career
  • Guys

• I keep up with guys from the OSU days. Rusty Martin from Checotah, he was my roommate for three years until he got married. Larry Elliott from Elk City. Charlie Durkee, who was a kicker for us. Leon Ward, who drowned in a boating accident, was another good friend. We still have reunions. We all go back to the spring game. We talk about how good we used to be, just like everybody does. As you get older, it's really great to see guys you struggled with. That's what made the Dallas Cowboys close. That'....

  

  Walt Garrison
  • Guys
  • Close
  • Dallas Cowboys

• Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Guys
  • Call
  • Pitcher