Nolan Ryan (Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr.) Quotes

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

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• I have been surfing since I was six years old.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Years
  • Old
  • Surfing

• Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Together
  • Years
  • Sum

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Know
  • Years

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• 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

• I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Years

• I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Old

• I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  

  Iain Banks
  • World
  • Years
  • Club

• When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it's flashy, it's shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Always
  • Player

• My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Years

• I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Career
  • City
  • Player

• Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Years
  • Fame
  • Been

• Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Years

• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Years

• My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

  

  J. R. Bourne
  • She
  • Years
  • Healthy

• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Baseball
  • Either
  • Cemetery

• Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Real
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I've enjoyed being a baseball owner more because I've enjoyed owners being allowed to participate.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Baseball

• Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Baseball
  • Unions
  • Marvin

• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Opportunity
  • Marketing
  • Never Forget

• I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Stop
  • Football
  • Forever

• I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

  

  Nolan Ryan
  • Player
  • Years
  • Baseball