Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
They were chanting my name, but I don't know why. My name is on the back of my uniform. So, it's nice to know they can read.
When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues.
If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.
I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.
The key to dealing with people in general is that they have to know that you care about them. You have to deal with people in gentleness. You have to come along side of them. You can't push them. You can't pull them. You have to walk with them. In order to do that, you've got to demonstrate care for that individual. That's my whole thing
Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!
I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.
Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.
The dress does not make the monk. [Fr. , L'habit ne fait le moine. ]
No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit.