William C. Rhoden Quotes
Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.
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I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.
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My father always told me I like the ball more than I like playing soccer: since I was a young kid, I was always skilled with it, dribbling furniture around the house. That's how I see football - fun and dynamic - and this goes beyond me; it's a characteristic of Brazilian football.
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The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.
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I'm just god-gifted: I have a talent. Even when I played basketball, no one ever taught me the game. I just played it. And with football, I just converted basketball to football and just played.
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I'm not getting caught in a club at 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to basketball games and hockey games and going to events and dinners.
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A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
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That's how we invaded Iraq, through the fear of an 'evil empire,' and it just makes people feel like bulls with the toreadors - you see red, and you charge.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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'Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program.
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Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
