Ted Williams Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
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Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
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“The husk of a man in the woods below me bled into a creek that fed into a river that sparkled gaily in the winter sun.”
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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
