- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try to shut the criticism out, but it's pretty hard to do. You see people on the street, friends, people that you know are in your corner, and they come and tell you how bad they feel, and that's not the kind of conversation you want. I don't want anyone to feel bad for me.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember much of my childhood. My father passed away when I was six, and sadly, I don't have the fuzziest, foggiest memory of him - what his voice was like, anything he ever said to me, nothing. My early years are a total blur.
- Parent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Jordan taught me after our game of one-on-one: A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. When excuses are no longer an option, you can focus your attention on the job you have to do, and not why it didn’t get done.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.
- Nov 07, 2020