- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could run for Congress. Why not? Good heavens, if Ronald Reagan can be president, I ought to make a great secretary of the treasury.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020