Quotes of: Jackie Keyword

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Connie Mack

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

Curt Schilling

On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.

Curt Schilling

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

Chuck Tanner

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

Chuck Tanner

Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

Hal Newhouser

I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.

Hal Newhouser

In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.

Hack Wilson

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

Ichiro Suzuki

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

Jacqueline Bisset

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James A. Baldwin

My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

Johnny Bench

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

David Novak

I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.

David Ortiz

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

Dan Quisenberry

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

Deion Sanders

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot.

Dean Smith