Do not let anyone stop you from succeding
I'm very tough on myself. I definitely look at the negative too much.
I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.
We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.
I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games.
Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.
I hate the ballplayer who says, 'I did everything I could have possibly done. ' Because if you didn't win it all, you obviously didn't do everything you could have done.
All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. . . . You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.