Carlos Ruiz Quotes

I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.

Carlos Ruiz

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  • Author Profession: athlete
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GoodHomePowerJobGameThink

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.

Jo Durie

SuccessMeResultNobodyWorstClay

Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

SadFightPracticeToughNewNice

I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.

Andrea Bocelli

MusicRespectMuchVeryPublicAlso

I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent.

Melvin Van Peebles

GoodBadPrettyLonerMuch

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

Jeffrey Combs

TimeFindWantStageOffIdea

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

Jeffrey Kluger

JobPeopleInternetPowerfulEnvy

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

Rob Lowe

ExperiencePeopleMeSomeoneYou

John Hirschbeck is a wonderful person with a wonderful family. I'm so glad that we have become friends.

Roberto Alomar

FamilyFriendsPersonBecomeGlad

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

WorldStartLuxuryYouFindKind

I think of feedback as constructive, not positive or negative. You choose to do what you want with it.

Denise Morrison

PositiveNegativeThinkYouChoose

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

Cleo Moore

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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Philip Roth

HistoryI AmTryingAwakeNightmare

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