Jack Baker famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.
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My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
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Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.
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I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.
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I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
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I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.
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My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
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Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
