Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes
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I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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I'm not a big sports fan.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
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I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.
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I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friendly way.
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The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
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I've always been a slave to my heart.
