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

• When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

  

  Kerry King Slayer
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Pretty

• Avoiding the all-too-typical divisive trappings of a takeover and creating instead a shared transnational culture - this is one of the most important lessons learned from combining Fiat and Chrysler to create FCA.

  

  John Elkann
  • Important
  • Culture

• It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

  

  Yasmin Ahmad
  • Up
  • Together
  • Perfect

• Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • I Feel
  • Predict
  • Radar

• I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Pieces of paper
  • Things down

• 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