Nick Johnson (Nicholas Robert "Nick" Johnson) Quotes
I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies
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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
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I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
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The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.
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I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
