Mike Schmidt Quotes

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Mike Schmidt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I definitely have a soft spot for women. I was raised by women - my mom and two older sisters. I've been surrounded by estrogen since I was born.

Jessie Pavelka

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When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

Jesmyn Ward

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With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.

Steve Hanke

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You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view. I have to make it clear that I don't live there anymore, and I don't approve of the brutal racial policies.

Trevor Rabin

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When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

Robin Williams

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I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

Roy Acuff

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I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

Jonathan Krohn

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India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

Joschka Fischer

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What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Douglas Kennedy

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The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Craig Bruce

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