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"The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw."
"Reality has a way of asserting itself."
"There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way."
"Money came my way but wasn't really in the plan, so I didn't know how to deal with it."
"Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river."
"In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest"
"The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life."
"We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now."
"A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first."
"... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge."
"Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens."
"Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand."
"Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up."
"But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were."
"When [Theresa May] says something she means it and she gets her way."
"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways."
"[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age."
"I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'."
"If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained."
"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively."
