- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what's coming down the pike in 'Gotham.' Part of me goes, 'Man, I just wish I could be in the writers' room. Do you need someone to make you guys coffee?' I just want to be a part of the flow of it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I fought Benson Henderson for the first time, or Jamie Varner, it was always like, 'Oh man... I'm in here fighting these guys. Do I really belong here?' That's all changed now.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single largest influence on writing style. I was completely in love with the way the man wrote.
- Family Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very much a family man.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020