Man Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
