Warren Spahn Quotes
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
-
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
-
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
-
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
-
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
-
It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
-
I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
-
I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
-
I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
-
I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
-
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
-
I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
-
I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
-
I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
-
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
-
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
-
The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
-
The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
-
One's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?
-
I have a thing for working with wounded characters.
-
I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.
-
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
