I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.
I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him. . . Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.
I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair.
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity. " Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.