Richie Ashburn Quotes

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

Richie Ashburn

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• That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm going to say to my fans.

  

  Maluma
  • Time
  • Free
  • Moments

• If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Game
  • Know
  • Better

• John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Green

• You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • You
  • Cure

• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Mind
  • Personality

• Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Soul

• The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Best

• I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Pain
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Change
  • Destiny

• Where is Winnie the Pooh without it's illustrations?

  

  Ralph Steadman

• 'Organized mayhem,' Nick commented, 'seems to be the chief preoccupation of intelligent species everywhere.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Intelligent

• This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Power
  • Control
  • Party

• What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Space
  • Travel
  • Author

• I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Comedy

• Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

  

  Aleksa Palladino
  • Life
  • Family
  • Parents

• Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Up
  • Why
  • May

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic?

  

  Carol Plum-Ucci
  • People
  • Believe
  • Magic

• When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Past

• Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Ideas

• In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Baseball
  • Creative
  • Data

• I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

  

  Richie Ashburn
  • Baseball
  • Changed
  • Eligible