"After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season."

-- Jim Evans

#Rights Quotes #Texas Quotes #Years Quotes

“The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.”
“Become one of the rare people who don't know how to quit.”
“I think if they hadn't scored, we might have got a better result.”
“The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.”
“I never really got any backlash from coming out. Across the board all I really got was kids who were grateful, which is so touching and rewarding for me. So grateful that I came out, that I could serve as someone in their world that was gay and helped them feel comfortable about being gay themselves.”
“I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isnt about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.”
“He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.”
“Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and itâ€™s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and the only reason in the world you donâ€™t get off is itâ€™s still fifty blocks from where youâ€™re going? Well, I can get off right now if I want to, because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, itâ€™s the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. As soon as Iâ€™ve had enough, itâ€™s my stop. Iâ€™ve had enough.”

Source : "'night, Mother". www.imdb.com. September 5, 1986.

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