Don Yaeger Quotes

Tony La Russa is considered among the best in his business. Yet nearly half the time he led his organizations into competition, they were defeated - 2,728 wins, 2,365 losses.

Don Yaeger

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A couple teams will grind the shot clock down. Most of the time coaches do that, it's usually a talent deficit. They can't compete against the better teams.

Jerry West

TimeTalentBetterDownGrindWill

Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman.

Jessica Raine

WomanManOverCallMidwife

I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'

John Burnside

MadSayMental IllnessHospitalJust

I grew up watching people and companies commercialize Black History Month. I watched old McDonald's commercials, and they'd blacken up the commercials for 28 days then go back to normal in March. It got annoying to me.

Jermaine Fowler

HistoryPeopleMeBlackBackGo

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.

John le Carre

OpinionFrustrationVoiceAmerican

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Jeffery Deaver

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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Amelia Barr

MeReadyInevitableAlwaysFound

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

Tracy K. Smith

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I don't have a great face for camera.

Tracy Letts

GreatFaceCamera

It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do publicity for movies or TV shows, and they do all the jokes that are good in the promotion of it, and you see the movie, and you're like, 'I kind of get it already. I'm not that psyched about it.'

Mike Birbiglia

GoodSomeoneYouPromotionSometimes

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Michael Keaton

DaySchoolColdLovedBadHouse

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

Miuccia Prada

LifePassionNew YorkThinkYouNew

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