Jason Robards Quotes

As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'

Jason Robards

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Wonder
  • Film
  • Enough

• Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Country
  • Baseball
  • Fans

• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Decision

• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Game
  • Best

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Wonder
  • Military

• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Player
  • Same

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Different
  • Home

• My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

  

  Warren Giles
  • Baseball
  • First
  • Welfare

• I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Work
  • Music
  • Love

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Universe
  • Wonder

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Believe
  • History
  • Baseball

• We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder
  • Expectations

• I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill Such a bright gold under my windowsill! Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still? Bless me! It's a daffodil!

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Wonder
  • Gold
  • Glitter

• At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Because
  • Got

• As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'

  

  Jason Robards
  • Player
  • Wonder
  • Baseball