Brooks Robinson Quotes

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Brooks Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: May 18, 1937

Topics

FaithBaseballPeopleYouRole Model

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Jerome Lawrence

TodayWalkCompetitionBoredomPlay

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

John Gordon Sinclair

FunnyYouTryBeing FunnyBeing

I don't write songs.

John Corbett

WriteSongs

I can't understand how some guys get tired after one round. If you can't go the distance, why are you even in the fight?

Michael Bisping

FightTiredYouDistanceUnderstand

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

Amanda Palmer

GoWhateverGreatestJustSongs

Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.

Steve Blank

BusinessCustomerFeedbackProduct

Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.

Josh Schwartz

BeginningYearFeastTakeLastGet

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

ProcessLivingGoingConstant

In the five years from 2007 to 2012, we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren't going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we'll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.

Chris Gibson

FoodEatingStopMoreFarmersSee

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

Christina Ricci

ThinkDownAnythingSuccessfulBig

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

Athanasios Orphanides

KnowledgeGreatYouSometimesWhy

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Seamus Heaney

NowIrishImagineIrelandHelped

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