I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
It was a big deal for us to be on Ozzfest, especially as one of the main headliners and being the band that wasn't announced: the mystery band. We'd never played the second stage at Ozzfest, and all of a sudden we're on the main stage.
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
You're never too fat for a new purse.
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job! We decided that we were going to do this as total partners and it is a 50/50 deal with us.
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
I actually don't think Ireland has a summer. I never experienced a summer there. It was just so wet.
I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.
If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.
My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.
And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.
I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.
For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'
Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.
My fat never made me less money.
The triumph is that the waveform we measure is very well represented by solutions of these equations. Einstein is right in a regime where his theory has never been tested before.
