Sid Waddell Quotes

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

Sid Waddell

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Fear
  • Others
  • Greedy

• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Working
  • Captain
  • Waiter

• Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• I just want to stay professional.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • Professional
  • Stay

• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• If you tell me 2 + 2 is 4, and I know it is, then you... shove marbles up your ass, I go 'Damn, Anthony shoves marbles in his ass?' But the fact that you shove marbles in your ass doesn't invalidate 2 + 2 = 4.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Up

• I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • People

• Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.

  

  Benjamin Cohen
  • People

• Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

  

  Alan Cohen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Up

• The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

  

  Buddha
  • World
  • Truth
  • Wise

• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Good

• To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all.

  

  Charles Comiskey
  • World
  • Business
  • Baseball

• Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Good

• I don't really do stand-up.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up

• If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.

  

  Neil Turok
  • Time
  • Space
  • Universe

• I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Work

• In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the face and lips and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smiled and kept moving.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Moving
  • Deep
  • Animal

• The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Game
  • Technology

• The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Today
  • Pretty
  • Idea

• Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

  

  Amrit Desai
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Want

• Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

  

  Sid Waddell
  • Heart
  • Muscles
  • Flint