"If and when I do get "down," the last thing on my mind is writing a song. Usually, being bummed just involves lying around on the couch and taking the bad weather personally. I only write songs when I feel good - or at least something approaching "good.""

#Song Quotes #Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes

“When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is”
“According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.”
“Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.”
“Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.”
“I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.”
“I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.”
“If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.”
“I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.”

Source : Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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