A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' Bill Dickey
A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game. Doug Collins
A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people Amanda Seyfried
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player. Jason Kidd
A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things. Jonathan Ames
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you. Marilyn Monroe
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up. Florance Griffith Joyner
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. Harlan Coben
A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life. Cam Newton
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph. Dennis Rodman
A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that. Ryan Lochte
A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. Warren Spahn
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats. Neal Barnard
Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'Cool, that's something I want to do.' Lisa Leslie
Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?' Paul Arden
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. Nelson Mandela
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. Dizzy Dean
All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me. Jackie Joyner Kersee