Albert Belle Quotes

In baseball, I don't fraternize with players when it's time to hit. I'm preparing for the game. It's the most important time of the day. And I know if I don't hit, I won't have a job in the big leagues. That's why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.

Albert Belle

• Players
• Hit
• Fraternize

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• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  

  Nancy Lopez
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• It's always about 'what have you done for me lately.' As players we see what is going on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Always
  • See
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• Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

  

  Hank Aaron
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• For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The 'Magician of Riga' rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.

  Garry Kasparov
  • World
  • Age
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• I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.

  

  Pep Guardiola
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• Obviously, we're very happy to have Tony with us for the foreseeable future, ... Along with Home Depot, he's been an important part of our organization for a number of years, and we're thankful that's going to continue.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Home
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• I don't think it's as easy as people make it out to be. You also have to protect in there. You're looking through your legs and trying to get something back there 15 yards to a certain spot. Your head's down and there's someone coming who just gets a free whack at you. I don't think there's anything easy about that deal.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • People
  • Trying
  • Game

• I think any of us, including Coach Parcells, would say that it's players that win games. You have to have great players.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Game
  • Players

• Our heart goes out to everybody down there, ... They've got to do whatever they've got to do. We're all praying for everybody down there. There's been a number of our players affected by it, and you just hope that somehow such a tragedy somehow we'll get that all squared away as quick as we can. So I would say whatever they've got to do, the Saints . . . I just feel bad for them.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Hope

• You never know what's going to happen, but our goal is to keep everything together. We have a lot to do trying to get ready for next year and continuing to add to our team and continuing to build something. I know we have the right kind of character and right kind of players to build around.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Together

• If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I would never have thought that would happen, ... Remember, when I signed with the Giants in 1955, it was only eight years since Jackie Robinson. But when I talk to Latino players today, a lot of them don't even realize how hard it was for us then.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Players

• They were trying to help the players adjust with a word of warning,

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Word

• The scouting community always looked at those guys as European players, until now. That may change.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • May
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• Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.

  

  Donnie Iris
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Band

• I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Cool
  • Player
  • Players

• He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Ball
  • Hit
  • Park

• People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • People
  • Players
  • Loyalty

• Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

  

  Aristotle
  • High
  • Problem
  • Aim

• I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make myself do that, and then I'll play it to a friend, and they'll say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But when something happens to me, and I sit down and write a song to get rid of my emotions, they'll turn around and say, 'Wow, that's great.'

  

  Estelle
  • Song
  • Friend
  • Emotions

• It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Humans
  • Trouble
  • Remedy

• I don't walk into a dinner party and say, 'You're an idiot; give me my coat.'

  

  Don Rickles
  • Party

• At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Giving
  • Debt
  • Buying

• In baseball, I don't fraternize with players when it's time to hit. I'm preparing for the game. It's the most important time of the day. And I know if I don't hit, I won't have a job in the big leagues. That's why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.

  

  Albert Belle
  • Players
  • Hit
  • Fraternize