Nick Johnson (Nicholas Robert "Nick" Johnson) Quotes
You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
-
Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
-
Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
-
We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
-
I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.
-
I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.
-
I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
-
It's always about 'what have you done for me lately.' As players we see what is going on.
-
Yes, I love playing Mom.
-
I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.
-
I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
-
My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
-
I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
-
A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.
-
I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
-
We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.
-
We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.
-
(The fielders are) just sitting out there playing jacks on the carpet, and the next thing you know the ball gets hit to them, and they can't get to it because you've put them to sleep.
-
I would never have thought that would happen, ... Remember, when I signed with the Giants in 1955, it was only eight years since Jackie Robinson. But when I talk to Latino players today, a lot of them don't even realize how hard it was for us then.
-
When you're playing your part, you don't watch other people - you just play your part.
-
You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.
-
Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.
-
You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.
