Al Lopez famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
-- Al Lopez

#Love #Inspirational #Life
Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
-- Al Lopez

#Hate #Yankees #Way
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
-- Al Lopez

#Feelings
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
-- Al Lopez

#Team #Player #Goal
The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
-- Al Lopez

#Wall #Player #Four
The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play. They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip. It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.
-- Al Lopez

#Play #Giving #Littles

Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.
The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of manâ€™s inhumanity to man.
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experienceâ€¦ would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
Freedom is never given; it is won.
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

Al Lopez famous quotes

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