Quotes about american-athlete
american-athlete hundred nine ninety ways
There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first. Bill Shoemaker
american-athlete
When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team. Bill Toomey
american-athlete distinct
The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.
american-athlete kids playing
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood. Frank Shorter
american-athlete
When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more. Florence Griffith Joyner
american-athlete biggest car success
I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house. Herschel Walker
american-athlete came
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out. Charley Pride
american-athlete breathed kids run town
All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.
american-athlete society tendency
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
american-athlete maybe
And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful. Eddie Murray
american-athlete home somebody talk
It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
american-athlete anybody base game man played proud
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
american-athlete lose
You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
american-athlete feeling great greatest join played players today
Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
american-athlete instructor
I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.
american-athlete heaven kids mom sure today watching
No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
american-athlete
When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
american-athlete
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
american-athlete dedication game ground home love preach swinging walking
And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.
american-athlete earned fame friendship guess hall proud ted williams
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
american-athlete both chuck demanded great joe vocal whereas
Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players. Franco Harris
american-athlete
Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh.
american-athlete starting
It's not how you come out of the starting blocks.
american-athlete believed chance football great halfway reach realized
Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
american-athlete man
He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone. Earl Wilson
american-athlete electricity invented man
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
american-athlete enables experience recognize
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
american-athlete
Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
american-athlete ask matter simply success
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
american-athlete people promise run
Without the Khrushchevs or the Nixons or the Reagans or those people you know, let us run it and I promise you we'll have a much better world. Ralph Boston
american-athlete time
That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it. Doug Flutie
american-athlete
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor. Barney Ross
american-athlete family
I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.