Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Willie Stargell

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• What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Time is generally the best doctor.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Best
  • Medical

• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Israel
  • Dealing
  • Treachery

• Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Why
  • Want
  • Day

• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  

  Harold Warner
  • God
  • Grace
  • Humility

• I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.

  

  Larry King
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Me

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Animals
  • Planet
  • Companions

• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Live
  • Family
  • Switzerland

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Run
  • Leg

• We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it.

  

  Peter Paige
  • Character
  • Write
  • Reaction

• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • May
  • Together

• I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Age
  • Weird

• When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'

  

  John McEnroe
  • God

• Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Dream
  • Sports
  • Baseball