"I was a guy who came to work every day. I was there. When my manager got to the field at 12, I felt like there was no reason for him to ever wonder if I was playing. For me, that's a big deal. I teach that to my kids."

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Prince Fielder

#Kids Quotes #Guy Quotes #Fields Quotes

“Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.”
“By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.”

Source : "Erin McKean comes to terms with fashion" by Beth Hughes, www.sfgate.com. August 6, 2012.
“I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs”
“We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.”

Source : Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.15, BoD – Books on Demand
“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1845). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.174
“"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.”

Source : Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1907). “Little Stories”
“When people run a business and open their door to the public, they must serve the public. That doesn't mean they can't say whatever they want to say. It doesn't mean they can't believe whatever they want to believe. Those are protected also. But businesses must serve the public. And that's a principle that we fought for in this country over many, many decades, when some were invoking religious freedom as an excuse to deny people on the basis of their race, on the basis of their religion, on the basis of sex and on the basis now of sexual orientation. Let's not confuse one thing with the other.”
“I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.”

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