My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot. Robin Roberts
One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins. Ray Floyd
One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check. Charles Barkley
Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care. Alain de Botton
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. Oscar Wilde
To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right. Steve Carlton
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball. Mickey Mantle
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston churchill
When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head. Harlan Coben
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last! Billie Jean King
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer. Paul Auster
Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target. Aimee Mullins
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. Wilma Rudolph
WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.Tom Brady
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. Margaret Atwood
You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore. Oscar Robertson