There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.
When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.
Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.
I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.
I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.
When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.
I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.
I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.
Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
I live at Gap Kids; I think they have the cutest stuff. I barely buy anything for myself, but my daughter has quite the collection.
I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.
I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.
When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.
I put pressure on myself.
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.
I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.
I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.
I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.
I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'
I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.
For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
