You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I’d be pulling for him.
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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing’s a joke to me. I don’t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you’re inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you’ve never seen before. If they do, I’m still looking for it.
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn’t throw it past me, none of them.
I don’t see pitches down the middle anymore – not even in batting practice.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been ‘Catch Me In Two Days’.
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can’t stop looking at the pinstripes.
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave – so let us let them leave.
We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel’s shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
As a great man’s influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.
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It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Grown men do not need leaders.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
If the end does not justify the means – what can?
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages – as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.