In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.
Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.