Casey Kasem (Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem) Quotes

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

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• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Dad
  • Kind
  • Baseball

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Choice
  • Tennis

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Way
  • Player
  • Guitar

• When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Years
  • Baseball

• I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Country
  • Home
  • Player

• It's fun; baseball's fun.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Fun
  • Baseball

• If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Game
  • Player

• I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Great
  • Think
  • Player

• To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

  

  Ma Long
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dream

• I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.' 5

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Important
  • Trying

• He's definitely the best player in the NBA - to me. I don't know if winning the (MVP) award is important to him or not. But he has three (championship) rings and that's what it's all about.

  

  Kobe Bryant
  • Important
  • Player
  • Winning

• We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Different
  • Long
  • Player

• You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

  

  Agustin Castillo
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Future

• The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

  

  Doc Rivers
  • Player
  • Winning

• Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

  

  Dizzy Dean
  • People
  • English
  • Baseball

• In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Good
  • Different
  • Important

• The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

  

  Duane Michals
  • Eyes
  • Trust

• In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

  

  Curnonsky
  • Cooking
  • Kitchen
  • Perfection

• Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Radio