"My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught me how to play the game. He gave a lot of his time working out with me, practicing and taking me to a lot of different games. It was hard work between both of us."

-- Rafael Palmeiro

#Baseball Quotes #Dad Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more 'approachable.'”
“To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.”
“The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.”
“Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.”
“As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.”
“Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.”
“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”

Source : Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage
“Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.”

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