Johnny Bench Quotes

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

Johnny Bench

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
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  • Birth: December 7, 1947

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

John Burroughs

HappinessSecretSomething

I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

Jennifer Sky

PeopleGlassesWeirdKindPretty

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

Matt Salmon

LeadershipChallengePeoplePolitical

I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

Matthew Perry

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To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

Anna Deavere Smith

LifeLiveRespectCultureStrong

People are interested in things not necessarily covered by the mainstream media, so they download things online. The categories are growing because people find out that they're not able to get information about stories that are of interest to them on the evening news.

Soledad O'Brien

PeopleEveningMediaInformationOut

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way.

Ron Eglash

LookingWhyWayAskGeometryGoing

Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

Lou Adler

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NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.

Juan Williams

LeadershipTeamGameVoiceDesign

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Jose Marti

WorkLiveHonestyTimeMenChild

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

Djuna Barnes

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Fans, especially ours, demand championships. That's what we're striving for.

Clay Matthews III

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