Texas Quotes
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.
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In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.
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I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
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I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
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Texas is as odd as it is vast.
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.
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There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.
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You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
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The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.
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I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
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'I'm just an ole redneck from Texas who ain't a Democrat or Republican, but I can look at a guy and tell whether I like him or not.'
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What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.
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I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.
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And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
