American Quotes

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

Not one man will the State of Missouri furnish to carry on any unholy crusade.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

I love going out and doing new things.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.