Rickey Henderson Quotes

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

Rickey Henderson

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• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Seen

• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
  • Will

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Respect
  • End

• I love a man who can wear my underwear.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Man
  • Wear
  • Underwear

• I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Back
  • Royalty
  • Send

• I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • She
  • Remember
  • History

• Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Now
  • Weekend
  • Eating

• Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Women
  • Industry
  • Unhappy

• I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!

  

  Karan Johar
  • May
  • Know
  • Feel

• It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • True
  • Way
  • Me

• If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Getting
  • Out
  • Homer

• Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • May
  • Character

• Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Character
  • Respect

• It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.

  

  Mark Consuelos

• Nobody has to give me permission to write.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Write
  • Give
  • Permission

• My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

  

  Dwight Gooden
  • People
  • Up
  • Baseball

• I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Time
  • Song

• We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

  

  James Newman
  • Independent

• All it takes is one coach that believes in you.

  

  Jon Gruden

• All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Personality
  • Identity

• I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

  

  Rickey Henderson
  • Baseball
  • Retiring