Quotes of: Jackie-robinson Keyword

The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

Casey Stengel

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

Casey Stengel

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

Casey Stengel

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

Casey Stengel

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

Curt Schilling

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

Curt Schilling

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

Curt Schilling

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

Curt Schilling

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

Ichiro Suzuki

I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

Ichiro Suzuki

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

James A. Baldwin

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

James A. Baldwin

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James A. Baldwin

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

James A. Baldwin

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James A. Baldwin

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James A. Baldwin

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

Johnny Bench

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

David Ortiz

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

David Ortiz

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

David Ortiz