He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.
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If I were catching blindfolded, I’d always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.
Bill DickeyBill Dickey 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,
Bill DickeyBill Dickey I loved to make a great defensive play, I’d rather do that than hit a home run.
Bill DickeyBill Dickey Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.’
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Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
Melissa AndersonMelissa Anderson Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Sometimes a person is in peace & in the piece at the same time.
Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Admire your sweet way of glowing; your passionate way of flowing.
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Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.
PtolemyPtolemy For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
Elizabeth of the TrinityElizabeth of the Trinity Like I’m a puzzle to be worked out and he’s got all damn day.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin [International law] doesn’t show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn’t show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what’s fundamentally important to somebody else today.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight. It’s not a gay wedding, it’s just a wedding. It’s not a gay marriage, it’s just a marriage.
PinkPink He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
Jet LiJet Li You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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