Royals Quotations

There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.

Pete Newell was the Olympic coach and was a fine person. It was a great honor to play on that team, ... Jack McMahon of the Royals was another coach I enjoyed playing for in the NBA and I got the opportunity to play with and against so many great players.

I felt like I performed pretty well, and I thought I was going to be a piece of the pie for them down the road. Looking from the outside in on what direction the Royals wanted to go, it didn't seem like I was going to be in the situation I wanted to be in. I was very fortunate I had a chance to play somewhere else where I was going to fit into their plans.

Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime.

He was sick with some kind of virus, he was coughing, he had thrown up, his eyes looked terrible, he had lousy stuff, and yet he kept the Royals from scoring,

The 1980s turned them into an international family thanks to the arrival of Diana and this bull's generation of young Royals - Prince Andrew, The Duchess of York and so on. And what happened was that they were rather like a stock, rather like IBM. Their stock went up and up and up and when the balloon burst their stock went plummeting to the ground.

The reason I took a discount is because I love playing here and I want to stay here my whole career. They (agents) worried that I would be traded to a small-market team like the Royals or Devil Rays.

When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.

To be honest with you, I don't even think about it much, ... I haven't with Kansas City because I grew up in Kansas. That was my boyhood team. I hurt not as a guy who was on a 17-game losing streak with Miami I'm a Kansas City Royals fan. I can't admit that. You're the first one I've admitted it to.

The thing about a team like the Royals is that eventually they have to win,

A win is a win. It doesn't matter if it's the Royals or the Indians. Every win is important.

You miss the playoffs and you're, like, a big loser. You might as well be the Royals if you don't make the playoffs. Close only counts in horseshoes.

It was impossible to do those things done by March 15. We pointed that out to the Royals -- they have agreed.

It's something they've never tried on with the British media. There's been quite an effort, and it's a question of who's doing whom a favor, to be honest - whether it's the Americans doing the royals and the British tourism industry a favor, or whether we're doing you a favor by sending you the heir to our throne.

It's something they've never tried on with the British media, ... There's been quite an effort, and it's a question of who's doing whom a favor, to be honest - whether it's the Americans doing the royals and the British tourism industry a favor, or whether we're doing you a favor by sending you the heir to our throne.

It's very nice to be asked to anybody's wedding. Particularly if it's the Prince of Wales. I learned a lot from it, which was to end early and get away. I suppose one would have to look back historically and see who other royals had at their weddings. Were there people at Queen Elizabeth's wedding who were common like myself?

I just hopped the fence one day in spring training with the Royals and just started working on different deliveries,

His is a difficult, difficult job. Rock stars get to have the fun. The royals don't.

I don't know how to answer that. Even if you have two good years, you've got to do a third. If you have three, you have to do it four. I've got to prove I can do it again, that the Royals did not catch lightning in a bottle or that it was a fluke. I don't think so, but there will always be questions.