Gene Mauch Quotes

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

Gene Mauch

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• The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Travel
  • Connection
  • Gift

• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Just
  • Agenda

• I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • War
  • You
  • Peace

• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Way
  • End
  • Bubbles

• I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Lucky
  • Just

• When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Different
  • Way
  • Opportunity

• Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Want

• I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Rich

• In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Wind

• How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Future
  • Girl
  • Son

• The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women’s equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men’s equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman’s child-bearing womb.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• The reality is, we don’t want our kids to be smart. We want them to be like us. Only more so.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Smart

• The stars are dead. The animals will not look. We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • May
  • History

• I do believe that the president of Venezuela is really, really destroying his own country, economically, politically.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Believe
  • Country

• Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Women
  • Shadow

• But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Good
  • God
  • Power

• It's all the same to me. The Yenisei swirls, the North Star shines, as it will shine forever; and the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes is clouded over by the final horror. - The House on the Fontanka, 19 August 1939

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • House
  • Eyes
  • Star

• If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Money
  • Control
  • Charity

• I want to change the perception about Latinos worldwide. I think people don't know yet how cool we are.

  

  J Balvin
  • People
  • Cool
  • Perception

• We want to find a permanent solution to the DACA population, not a continual three-year renewal period.

  

  Kirstjen Nielsen
  • Period

• We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Survival mode
  • Growth mode

• The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

  

  Gene Mauch