“Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don’t use that ability as best we can.”
And
“Every day you waste is one you can never make up.”
And
“One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.”
And
“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
And
“Winning is the science of being totally prepared.”
And
“Every time you win, you’re reborn; when you lose, you die a little.”
And
“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.”
And
“The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.”
And
“The future? This team hasn’t been to the playoffs in over two decades and you’re worried about the future? The Future is Now!”
And
“Football isn’t necessarily won by the best players. It’s won by the team with the best attitude.”
And
“Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.”
And
“If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you’re stealing.”
And
“Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.”
And
“Success is what you do with your ability. It’s how you use your talent.”
And
“Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.”
And
“The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.”
And
“The tougher the job, the greater the reward.”
And
“Forget the past- the future will give you plenty to worry about”
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
And
“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
And
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
And
“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
And
“Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”
And
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
And
“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”
And
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
And
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”
And
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
And
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
And
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
And
“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
And
“When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.”
And
“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
And
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”
And
“It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.”
And
“The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it’s really a manifestation of his character.”
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“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That’s what it’s all finally about.”
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“One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.”
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“The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call “following your bliss.”
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“The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. …Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms… the two are the terms of a single mythological theme… the down-going and the up-coming (kathados and anodos), which together constitute the totality of the revelation that is life, and which the individual must know and love if he is to be purged (katharsis=purgatorio) of the contagion of sin (disobedience to the divine will) and death (identification with the mortal form). “All things are changing; nothing dies…”
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“Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. There’s a wonderful formula that the Buddhists have for the Bodhisattva, the one whose being (sattva) is illumination (bodhi), who realizes his identity with eternity and at the same time his participation in time. And the attitude is not to withdraw from the world when you realize how horrible it is, but to realize that this horror is simply the foreground of a wonder and to come back and participate in it. “All life is sorrowful” is the first Buddhist saying, and it is. It wouldn’t be life if there were not temporality involved which is sorrow. Loss, loss, loss.”
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“Follow your bliss.”
And
“Bill Moyers: Unlike heroes such as Prometheus or Jesus, we’re not going on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. Joseph Campbell: But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there’s no doubt about it. The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.”
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“Marx teaches us to blame society for our frailties, Freud teaches us to blame our parents, and astrology teaches us to blame the universe. The only place to look for blame is within: you didn’t have the guts to bring up your full moon and live the life that was your potential.”
“Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.”
And
“Houston, we’ve had a problem here.”
And
“The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.”
And
“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”
And
“From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. It wasn’t a miracle, we just decided to go.”
“A man should look for what he is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
And
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
And
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
And
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
And
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
And
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
And
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
And
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
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“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
And
“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
And
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
And
“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”
And
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
And
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
And
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
And
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
And
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
And
“Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.”
And
“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”
And
“Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.”
And
“I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. …The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”
And
“I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.”
And
“Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.”
And
“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
And
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
And
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
And
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
And
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
And
“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity.”
And
“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”
And
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
And
“If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.”
And
“The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind.”
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
And
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
And
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
And
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
And
“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
And
“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”
And
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
And
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
And
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
And
“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
And
“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
And
“Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”
And
“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.”
And
“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
And
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
And
“Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
And
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
And
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
And
“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.”
And
“If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
And
“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”
And
“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”
And
“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”
And
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”
And
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”
And
“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”
And
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
And
“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.”
And
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
And
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
And
“The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.”
And
“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
And
“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”
And
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”
And
“We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.”
And
“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is “attitude.”
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
And
“As athletes, we’re used to reacting quickly. Here, it’s ‘come, stop, come, stop.’ There’s a lot of downtime. That’s the toughest part of the day.”
And
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
And
“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”
And
“I never thought a role model should be negative.”
And
“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”
And
“I realize that I’m black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody’s wish.”
And
“I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.”
And
“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.”
And
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
And
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
And
“I’ve never been afraid to fail.”
And
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
And
“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
And
“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”
And
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”
And
“My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.”
And
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
And
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
And
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
And
“There is no “i” in team but there is in win.”
And
“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.”
And
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
And
“If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.”
And
“I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.”
And
“God’s the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That’s solely in the hands of God.”
And
“I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.”
And
“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”
And
“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.”
And
“People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not.I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country.”
And
“I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.”
And
“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”
And
“The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.”
And
“My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.”
And
“I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don’t know. It’s life.”
And
“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.”
And
“You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.”
And
“You’ve got a song you’re singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you’ve got to make them think that you’re one of them sitting out there with them too. They’ve got to be able to relate to what you’re doing.”
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“That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.”
And
“You can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up… and it’s not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don’t give up. I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.”
And
“Be thankful for the time you have.”
And
“Johnny Cash is a two-word answer for why it’s still good to be an American.” Rosanne Cash on her father Johnny Cash
“I wish you not a path devoid of clouds, nor a life on a bed of roses,
Not that you might never need regret,
nor that you should never feel pain.
No, that is not my wish for you.
My wish for you is:
That you might be brave in times of trial,
when others lay crosses upon your shoulders.
When mountains must be climbed and chasms are to be crossed,
When hope can scarce shine through.
That every gift God gave you might grow with you
and let you give your gift of joy to all who care for you.
That you may always have a friend who is worth that name,
whom you can trust and who helps you in times of sadness,
Who will defy the storms of daily life at your side.
One more wish I have for you:
That in every hour of joy and pain you may feel God close to you.
This is my wish for you and for all who care for you.
This is my hope for you now and forever.”
And
St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic. ~Adrienne Cook
You’ve heard I suppose, long ago, How the snakes, in a manner most antic, He marched to the county Mayo, And trundled them into th’ Atlantic ~William Maginn
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick’s Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth. ~Author Unknown
For each petal on the shamrock This brings a wish your way – Good health, good luck, and happiness For today and every day. ~Author Unknown
What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck. ~Author Unknown
May your blessings outnumber The shamrocks that grow, And may trouble avoid you Wherever you go. ~Irish Blessing
Oh, Paddy, dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen, For there’s a cruel law agin’ the Wearin’ o’ the green. ~Author Unknown
When law can stop the blades of grass from growin’ as they grow, An’ when the leaves in summer time their color dare not show, Then I will change the color, too, I wear in my caubeen; But till that day, plaise God, I’ll stick to the Wearin’ o’ the Green. ~Author Unknown
May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you. ~Irish Blessing
So, success attend St. Patrick’s fist, For he’s a saint so clever; Oh! he gave the snakes and toads a twist, And bothered them forever! ~Henry Bennett
Saint Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth Drove all the snakes from Ireland, here’s a drink to his health! But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then Forget the good Saint Patrick, and see them snakes again! ~Author Unknown
Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck. ~Author Unknown
Oh, the music in the air! An’ the joy that’s ivrywhere – Shure, the whole blue vault of heaven is wan grand triumphal arch, An’ the earth below is gay Wid its tender green th’-day, Fur the whole world is Irish on the Seventeenth o’ March! ~Thomas Augustin Daly
When Irish eyes are smiling, sure ’tis like a morn in spring. In the lilt of Irish laughter you can hear the angels sing, When Irish hearts are happy all the world seems bright and gay, And when Irish eyes are smiling, sure, they steal your heart away. ~Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr. (lyrics), Ernest R. Ball (music)
He was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty. ~Arthur Brisbane
Oh, while a man may dream awake, On gentle Irish ground, ‘Tis Paradise without the snake – That’s easy to be found. ~Frederick Langbridge
For ’tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it’s green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all. ~Mary Elizabeth Blake
O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me! ~Katherine Tynan
If you’re enough lucky to be Irish, you’re lucky enough! ~Irish Saying
There’s a dear little plant that grows in our isle, ‘Twas St Patrick himself, sure, that set it; And the sun on his labor with pleasure did smile, And with dew from his eye often wet it. It thrives through the bog, through the brake, and the mireland; And he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland… ~Andrew Cherry
And about her courts were seen Liveried angels robed in green, Wearing, by St Patrick’s bounty, Emeralds big as half the county. ~Walter Savage Landor
Do you suppose it’s true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew? ~Dave Beard
The shamrock on an older shore Sprang from a rich and sacred soil Where saint and hero lived of yore, And where their sons in sorrow toil. ~Maurice Francis Egen
A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. ~Author Unknown
What color should be seen Where our fathers’ homes have been But their own immortal Green? ~Author Unknown
May luck be our companion May friends stand by our side May history remind us all Of Ireland’s faith and pride. May God bless us with happiness May love and faith abide. ~Irish Blessing
May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, May good luck pursue you each morning and night. ~Irish Blessing
Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town, And on it put a steeple. ~Henry Bennett
Wandered from the Antrim hills, Wandered from the Killalas rills, Patrick heard upon the breeze Voices from the Irish seas. ~Author Unknown
If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick’s Day you get what you want very much but haven’t wished for. ~Patricia Lynch
With the frost he kindled fire; Drove the snakes from brake and brier, Hurling out the writhing brood With the lightning of his rood. ~Edwin Markham
There’s ne’er a mile in Ireland’s Isle where the dirty vermin musters; Where’er he put his dear forefoot he murdered them in clusters. The toads went hop, the frogs went flop, slapdash into the water, And the beasts committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. ~Old Irish Song
When after the Winter alarmin’, The Spring steps in so charmin’, So fresh and arch In the middle of March, Wid her hand St. Patrick’s arm on… ~Alfred Percival Graves
The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick – who was an Irishman only by adoption. ~Stephen Gwynn
Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter Lullabies, dreams, and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums A thousand welcomes when anyone comes. ~Author Unknown
An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth. ~Irish Saying
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown
“It’s a beautiful day for a ball game…. Let’s play two!”
And
“But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.”
And
“I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.”
And
“It’s a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.”
And
“Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.”
And
“Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don’t do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I’m talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.”
And
“The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.”
