John McGraw Quotes

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

John McGraw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 7, 1873 - February 25, 1934

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FunMeWinningGameRestHill

Dialing down is not an option for me.

Jimmy Wales

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The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

Jill Scott

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One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.

Jeremy Grantham

MoneyDayPotentialLongPigWill

Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.

John Dickerson

BusinessPoliticsDo The Right Thing

If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.

Amy Carlson

WomanNew YorkMindIndependent Woman

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

Stevie Wonder

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As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

Trip Hawkins

InnovationInternetResultWillSee

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Tony Robbins

AgeInformationEntertainment

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.

Michel Hazanavicius

LivingActorWayGreatestMayLike

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

Joseph Epstein

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People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

Christian Louboutin

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If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Bobby Short

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