![I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. [...] I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-view-the-major-features-of-my-own-odyssey-as-a-set-of-mostly-fortunate-continge.jpg)
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baseball children blessed
I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children. Carlos Delgado
baseball player political
I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
baseball numbers league
Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's. Carlos Beltran
baseball team mean
I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.
baseball jesus heart
When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
baseball yankees long
As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees. Carl Everett
baseball nba nfl
This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened. Carl Crawford
baseball beat feather whenever
Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the USA, it's a real feather for baseball in Canada's history. Ernie Whitt
baseball beat feather focus hand happy hour task whenever
Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the U.S.A. it's a feather in Baseball Canada's history. We can be happy right now, but we still have a task at hand and after an hour or two, we'll focus in on Mexico.
commitment favorite-words interesting
Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not. Carlos Ghosn
commitment people
We want people to know we take this very seriously. This isn't for us to go out there and play. It's a lifestyle, a commitment you've got to make.
commitment want lasts
Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did. Charlie Daniels
commitment who-i-am knowing
To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand. Charles Taylor
commitment ifs
He did each single thing as if he did nothing else. Charles Dickens
commitment reflection giving
Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God. Charles Stanley
commitment desire level shown team
We have a young team and I think they've shown me they have a level of commitment and desire to compete. It's really exciting.
commitment hurricane levels orleans people quickly restore service
The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.
commitment baptized-in people
The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have. Richard G. Scott
views issues doctrine
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues. Carl Bernstein
views roots squares
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question. Carl Friedrich Gauss
views hands serious
Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will. C. S. Lewis
views doe indifference
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. Agnes Repplier
views where-you-come matter
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from. Aasif Mandvi
views perspective point-of-view
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points Alan Kay
views effort suffering
It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others. Charlotte Bronte
views safe edges
Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better Ricky Gervais
views world universal-truth
In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false. Brian Cox