My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway
My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room. Cal Ripken Jr
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down. Hale Lrwin
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. Beverly Cleary
My first game, I played the first play of the game and called a timeout and got sat down, got benched for the rest of the game, and we won the game. It was the longest day of my life. Long day. Very embarrassing. Mike Singletary
My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right. Derrick Rose
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. Jerry Rice
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field. Bo Jackson
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. Cory Lidle
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.Sheryl Swoopes
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air. Earl Wilson
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. Joan Didion
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' Matthew Tobin Anderson
On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk. Apolo Ohno
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died. Sam Ewing
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. Virginia Woolf
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. Virginia Woolf
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.Nolan Ryan
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.Martin Luther King