You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings. Jack Dempsey
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. Reggie Jackson
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. Arthur Miller
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.Martin Luther King
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. Stanley baldwin
A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses. Lee Haney
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. Annie Dillard
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. Franco Harris
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. Shawn Johnson
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. Ron Chernow
After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind. Merlin Olsen
After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy. Howie Carr
After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories. Ron Chernow
After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else. Bob Uecker