Mike Schmidt Quotes

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Mike Schmidt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 27, 1949

Topics

LoveSportsMeHellStatisticsKnow

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

Jesse Eisenberg

BikePeopleMeSayMoreHobbies

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

Simon Cowell

HateThinkPoliticalJudgeYou

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.

Roger Zelazny

PastMindBookNeverWriteThings

Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

Rory Bremner

IndependenceGoOverUnionLike

Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable. Listening to podcasts, in this model, is a form of virtue.

Michelle Dean

ListeningTelevisionVirtueAudience

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

Dennis Lehane

BestCreativePeoplePossibilities

For me, it's more important to bring my level up and make sure that I can compete against guys in the top 100 and top 50 instead of maybe being 120 or 130 and not being able to compete with those guys.

Denis Shapovalov

MeI CanImportantMoreTopCompete

I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.

Dennis C. Blair

WorldThinkStandAmericanMore

What I do in WWE is essentially a lovable bad guy.

Dean Ambrose

BadBad GuyGuyWWELovable

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an hour at the 1992 Rumble, or Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog being one and two in 1995 and both lasting until the end.

Dean Ambrose

TimePeopleEndLongEnduranceTwo

The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.

Anne Beatts

GreatSchoolMeRevengeHigh School

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

Anne Lamott

FlowerMotherSonEyesFindAlways

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