"After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game.""

-- Jim Bouton

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“Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.”
“I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.”
“In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all...”
“Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.”
“Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become”

Source : Edwin Louis Cole (1992). “On becoming a--real man”, Thomas Nelson Publishers
“Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.”

Source : "Jerry Hall turns 57! Looking back at her hottest fashions and fierce Texan one-liners" by Lucy Buckland, www.mirror.co.uk. July 02, 2013.
“You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.”

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