David Wright Quotes
As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
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This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
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My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.
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I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.
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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
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I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.
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To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.
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I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
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I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.
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Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
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With respect to keeping your sanity, the more you are dedicated to your job, the more you think about it. And there is so much to think about for the director.
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My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life.
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I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.
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I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.
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Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
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Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.
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As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.
