Bill Dickey Quotes

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

Bill Dickey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 6, 1907 - December 12, 1993

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Theranos was a combination of fraud with hubris mixed with incompetence.

John Carreyrou

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Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.

Maxine Peake

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All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

Steven Saylor

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John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.

Tommy Lee

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My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Rudolph A. Marcus

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The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Michael Lewis

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Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow's psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn't arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn't a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival.

Jay Samit

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If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that's just cool. It's worth it because you become more educated in something.

Jason Momoa

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Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'

Chris Hemsworth

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I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.

Cindy Margolis

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When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.

Bonnie McKee

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I'm not in it for the money. No, no. I like to run a business that's successful... I'm a very creative person.

Aliko Dangote

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