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

• Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Money
  • Art

• We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Today

• What Jimmy Page did was pretty inspiring for guitar players. He married a lot of acoustic elements into hard rock. The kind of chords he used were very left of center, with a lot of dissonance - I absorbed that like a sponge. It's all over the music I write, always.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Inspiring
  • Guitar-Players
  • Jimmy Page

• Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Train
  • Gone

• 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
  • Mercury
  • Parking