Satchel Paige Quotes
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
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Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
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This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.
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I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
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A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
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It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
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There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
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Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
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For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.
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Career politicians like Marco Rubio worry more about keeping the job than doing the job and are constantly looking for their next political promotion.
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I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
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They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
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And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
