Luck is when determination meets opportunity
It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.
Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.
In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.
Tick tock, this is a clock.
Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's all about banishment or punishment or forced destitution - all of which creates more desperation, and more social risk-taking by people in moments of crisis.