Dave LaPoint Quotes

Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

Dave LaPoint

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • World
  • Family
  • Team

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Truth
  • America

• I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Guy

• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Practice

• I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • High
  • Think
  • Team

• Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Practice
  • Empowerment

• If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • High
  • Health

• Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Women
  • Money
  • Team

• Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Time
  • Team
  • Old

• Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years - I still do that.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Party
  • Practice
  • Brother

• We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Practice

• What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

  

  David Horowitz
  • Good
  • Practice

• Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

  

  Mark Millar
  • Money
  • Team

• I used to play against a high school football team that always used to run the single wing. And eventually, other teams figured out that they ran the single wing. And so they prepared for it. The Democrats are stuck running the single wing.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Practice
  • Mindfulness
  • Hand

• Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Kids

• How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.

  

  Yasser Seirawan
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Littles

• How do you remain - steadfast and immovable during a trial of faith? You immerse yourself in the very thing that helped your core of faith: you exercise faith in Christ, you pray, you ponder the scriptures, you repent, you keep the commandments, and you serve others.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Exercise
  • Christ
  • Scripture

• Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

  

  Dave LaPoint
  • Team
  • Practice
  • Batting