Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.
So I say keep yelling and hustling every minute you're in uniform.
Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.
Internal marketing is probably much more important than external marketing. That's even more true today than it's ever been.
Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.
Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.
Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.
Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
They were two halves that together formed a magical whole.
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.
No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.
There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.
When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.
When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.
With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.
I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then.
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.
The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.
It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.
If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.
We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.
I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.
I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!
This will be my last contract. I wanted it to be a good one.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.
If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.
I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
When it came to foods it was a guessing game.
As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.
If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Even when I was little, I was big.
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
If you never give up, you'll be successful.
They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting.
The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
The triangle is a foundation to an offense.
It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.
If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.
I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.
A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.
There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.
It's not how you come out of the starting blocks.
Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.
As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.
There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.
It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.
My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.