George Will Quotes

I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

George Will

• Father
• Sports
• Baseball

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• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Sports
  • Won

• I always separated sports and my personal life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Always
  • Sports

• Life is about timing.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Timing

• When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Baseball
  • Fever
  • Goose

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Father
  • Night
  • Man

• I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Father
  • Dead
  • Very

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• I think every school in the world should have a sports program.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • World
  • School
  • Sports

• When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • True
  • Father

• My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Up
  • Business
  • Father

• My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• But it don't bother me. I never yet saw anybody hit the baseball with their face. Besides, I like to get kidded; that means they like me. When they stop kidding me, I'm in trouble.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Stop
  • Baseball

• Dear father, I have received several letters from Mary and yourself, but as I have to deal with nineteen-twentieths of those received, have neglected to answer them.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Father

• If we are to inspire men to father it also helps to stop reflexively condemning men as afraid of commitment and address what they are afraid of. –page246.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Father
  • Stop

• When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Father
  • Sick

• Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • People
  • Father
  • Feeling

• All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • You
  • Know
  • Own

• The moment I am off the field, it's my personal time.

  

  Neymar
  • Time

• There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

  

  Clint Walker
  • Time
  • Bad

• Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

  

  George Will
  • Father
  • Sports
  • Baseball