"Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both."

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Source : Graig Nettles, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Balls”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

Graig Nettles

#Baseball Quotes #Dream Quotes #New York Quotes

“It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.”
“At the core of your Heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.”
“I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].”

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“Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of infinite possibilities separating man and his potential. We had four miles and the best competition in the nation. We linked hands in the boat and committed ourselves to each other.”
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.”
“Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.”
“I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.”
“Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.”

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