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Gerry Cooney Quotes

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

Gerry Cooney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 4, 1956

Topics

Path Baseball I Am Help Choose Go

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Jimmy Webb

Dreams Dare Say Sailor Being Hopes

I have never been a star; I'm just an old character bag.

Joan Hickson

Character Bag Never Old Star Been

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

Joan Collins

School Reading Think Ability Leave

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

John Florio

Women Men Hell Paradise Horses

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.

John le Carre

Strength Growing Up Control World

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.

Jeff Gordon

Past Me Find Want Way Force

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

John Tyler

Happy Independence America Will Era

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

John Podhoretz

Quality Baseball Writing Game Result

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

Miranda Cosgrove

Family Me Important Always Been Had

As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make my manuscript better, people who've made careers out of providing careful, constructive criticism to writers. I'm tremendously grateful to them.

Chris Pavone

Grateful People Criticism Better Out

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

William Robertson Smith

Community Man Religion Society End

I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn't a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that's mine.

Shawn Colvin

People Mind Challenges Confident Up