Satchel Paige Quotes

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

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• Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Country
  • Baseball
  • Fans

• 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.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Money
  • Job
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Job
  • Guy

• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Job
  • Computer

• 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.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Job
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Stand

• This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Job
  • Train

• I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Dog

• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Good
  • Job
  • Ambition

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Think
  • Today
  • Baseball

• Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • May
  • Job
  • Man

• 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!

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Remember

• A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Job
  • Treasure
  • Skilled

• No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Good
  • Help
  • Game

• Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.

  

  Peter T. King
  • Done
  • Job
  • Taken

• Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Job
  • Government
  • Stuff

• What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

  

  Mark Batterson
  • World
  • Change
  • Unique

• Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Great
  • Country
  • Home

• I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Job
  • Baseball