Rafael Palmeiro Quotes

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.

Rafael Palmeiro

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• I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • Changing

• I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Culture

• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Determined
  • Ambitious

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • Important
  • Kids

• Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Growth
  • Moral

• I will not leave this Earth until I play Harley Quinn.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Earth
  • Play
  • Leave

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Life
  • Done
  • Hope

• I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Stuff
  • Sing
  • Exciting

• What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Me
  • Write
  • Most

• It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Needs
  • Story

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Water
  • Same
  • Beer

• Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Different
  • Best
  • Audience

• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Time
  • Real
  • Day

• Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Life
  • High
  • Quality

• When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Great
  • High
  • Film

• I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Life
  • Great

• I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • High
  • Play
  • First