Eric Davis Quotes
I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.
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We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.
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I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
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I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China when they are older.
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I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.
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I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.
