American Quotes

It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.

It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

A child can escape the shadows.

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?