Brooks Robinson Quotes
I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.Brooks Robinson
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
Gabriel Iglesias -
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters -
The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
Utada Hikaru -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
Hale Irwin -
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
Nadia Giosia -
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Sam Snead -
I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
Imelda May -
I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
Ted Stevens -
Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
Abby Wambach -
There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
M. J. Rose
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley -
Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
Nathan Myhrvold -
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Walter Bagehot -
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
Karen Kain -
For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
Najib Razak -
I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
Patricia Riggen
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Life's a journey, not a destination.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
Daley Thompson -
Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
Jeff Foxworthy -
That's not unusual for a player to lose concentration if certain phases of the game go wrong for him. He put some pressure on himself to score. All players want to score as a part of their game. . . . I don't know where his confidence is. You either have it or you don't have it. It doesn't reside in your jockstrap or your brain. His confidence should be in his defense. That's where he plays and rebounds and hustles for us.
Phil Jackson -
I've always said the World Cup is a dream for any player.
Kylian Mbappe -
I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
Brooks Robinson