Eddie Mathews Quotes

I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.

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• All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Los Angeles

• When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Successful

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Father

• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Money
  • Know
  • Less

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Marriage

• It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Government
  • Politics

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Business
  • Job
  • Law

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Love
  • Friendship

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• Hmmmm...There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Boys

• You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Doe
  • Next
  • Cameras

• I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Think
  • Bond

• Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Man

• There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Up
  • Good

• I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.

  

  Eddie Mathews
  • Up
  • America
  • Today