Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid) Quotes

I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.

Willie Mays

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• You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Live
  • You
  • Leather

• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Evil
  • Moment
  • Injustice

• I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Job
  • Want
  • Day

• I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Eyes
  • Presence
  • Venice

• I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.

  

  Larry King
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Jealous

• I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Up
  • Why
  • Want

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Want
  • You
  • Audience

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• I did anything that would get me on the air.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Me
  • Air
  • Get

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Skinny

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Feel
  • Force
  • Novel

• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

  O. Henry
  • You
  • Like
  • Rule

• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Know
  • Universe
  • Body

• Time is the soul of this world.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Door

• I reason, earth is short, And anguish absolute. And many hurt; But what of that?I reason, we could die: The best vitality Cannot excel decay; But what of that?I reason that in heaven Somehow, it will be even, Some new equation given; But what of that?

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Earth
  • Die
  • Heaven

• I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Hurt
  • Blessed
  • Exhausted