Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore. Brian Boitano
Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in. Dwight Gooden
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. Ernest Hemingway
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. Phyllis McGinley
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. Albert Einstein
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. Arnold Palmer
Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me. Venus Williams
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. Margaret Atwood
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off. John Eldredge
Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on. David Eddings
Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that. Barry Zito
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else. Martha Beck
Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.' Jennie Finch
Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better. Julius Lrving
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. George William Curtis
Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia. Steve Carlton