"Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person."

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Source : "Paving a way for humble Willie Mac" by John Shea, www.sfgate.com. May 3, 2003.

Willie McCovey

#Reading Quotes #Careers Quotes #Great Things Quotes

“I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.”
“I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.”
“My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.”
“If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.”
“Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.”
“...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”
“We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.”

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