Brad Williams Quotes
If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.
Quotes to Explore
-
My biggest fear in life is to be average.
-
I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
-
Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
-
That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?
-
The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.
-
For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average.
-
Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
-
Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.
-
I'm an utterly average, total geek.
-
Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.
-
He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.
-
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
-
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
-
Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
-
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
-
Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.
-
The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
-
No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to stay average.
-
The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
-
I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
-
There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.
-
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
-
If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.
