"I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win."

-- Barry Zito

#Running Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Cocky Quotes

“Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.”
“All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.”
“I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.”
“Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.”

Source : "Exclusive: Omari Hardwick Raw (Career Evolution, Transition, Testimony Of Faith In Hollywood, 'Kick-Ass 2,' More)". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. August 27, 2012.
“You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.”
“The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.”

Source : Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books
“A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.”

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