Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid) Quotes

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing

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• I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Religious

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • You
  • Better
  • Magic

• Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Education
  • Service

• I love movies that are funny and scary and truly emotional all in one film, and I don't feel like I see movies like that a lot.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Funny
  • Emotional
  • Scary

• Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Success

• What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

  

  John Major

• A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.

  

  John Gregory Dunne

• You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Smile

• Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • People
  • Today

• I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

  

  Maria Grazia Cucinotta

• I like watching 'The X Factor,' but I would never go on it - I think it's too much of a controlled thing.

  

  Dionne Bromfield

• I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Space
  • Revolution

• I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

  

  Bob Edwards
  • Time

• The fact is there should not be any mercury in any vaccine.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Fact
  • Mercury
  • Vaccine

• It's great at least to be at 4-2, ... That part is fun. You get to play games that count now. We're entering a tough stretch here. It starts with the Giants.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Games

• Everybody at this point of the year is missing some starters. They took the Giants to overtime (on Dec. 11, and lost 26-23) and that's all you have to say.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Lost
  • Missing
  • Giants

• 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

• a car is just a moving, giant handbag! You never have actually to carry groceries, or dry cleaning, or anything! You can have five pairs of shoes with you at all times!

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Moving
  • Car
  • Shoes

• The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

  

  Hans Arp
  • Light
  • Sculpture
  • Animal footprints

• Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Faith
  • Person
  • Stupidity

• In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing

  

  Willie Mays
  • Giants
  • Parking
  • Mercury