The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.
The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time. '
In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that. " And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.
The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no. "
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.