Gary Sheffield Quotes
It did help. I didn't have to think about defense. I felt good today. I felt strong in my last at-bat.
Quotes to Explore
-
I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
-
When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
-
More modern poetry is written than read.
-
My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
-
In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
-
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
-
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
-
You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
-
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
-
Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
-
'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
-
I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
-
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
-
For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
-
Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
-
One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
-
My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.
-
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
-
My family had to flee Iran... the revolution, and we were very, very lucky to come to America and have opportunities presented to us. And that's... one of the things that makes America great.
-
When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.
-
I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.
-
It did help. I didn't have to think about defense. I felt good today. I felt strong in my last at-bat.
