Garry Birtles Quotes
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
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The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.
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We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.
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I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
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I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.
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I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything.
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I want to leave a great legacy behind me and continue to win major championships.
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We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
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I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.
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A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.
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The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
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I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.
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The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'
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O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
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If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.
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I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.
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They were numerically outnumbered.
