Me Quotes
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
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I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
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To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.
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Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
