"When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both."

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Graig Nettles

#Baseball Quotes #Boys Quotes #Player Quotes

“We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.”

Source : Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Douglas Kennedy Collection #2: Temptation, The Woman in the Fifth, and Leaving the World”, p.689, Simon and Schuster
“The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.”
“We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' We shouldn't be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.”
“The courage to try something new makes me proud.”
“So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.”
“Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.”
“Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.”
“I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.”

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