1986 World Quotes

#1. Nothing will ever replace the feeling I got when Jesse Orosco
struck out Marty Barrett
to end the game (Game 7 of the 1986 World Series) and I got the opportunity to run out into his arms. To me, that was the greatest accomplishment. Without a doubt, that was my biggest thrill.

Gary Carter

#2. When the Mets were on their run in the 1980s, Gary Carter was often seen hugging somebody. It was easy to joke about that. The best hug of all was with Jesse Orosco at the end of the 1986 World Series.

George Vecsey

#3. Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope.

Diego Maradona

#4. Some voices get hard and tight with age, some rough like broken glass.

Shannon Hale

#5. I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

Diego Maradona

#6. You can't just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years.

Jennifer Crusie

#7. I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

Bonnie Blair

#8. Your heart determines if you are rich or poor

Sonya Withrow

#9. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

William Shakespeare

#10. On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.

Derek Jarman

#11. Arriving there is what you are destined for

C.P. Cavafy

#12. Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

Barton Gellman

#13. There is a difference in wanting someone and loving someone.

Christy Warren

#14. Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...

Sue Townsend

#15. You must make your dream a priority in order for it to become your life

Bob Proctor

#16. Great deeds begin in the mind,
extraordinary deeds begin in the heart,
and remarkable deeds begin in the soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.

Todd Stocker

#18. Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback of 2004, I have seen the highs and lows of some other people's favorite team.

George Vecsey

#19. As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.

Ala Bashir

#20. No one has the right to judge you, because no one really knows what you have been through. They might have heard the stories, but they didn't feel what you felt in your heart.

G.M.B. Akash

#21. If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

Michel Patini

#22. I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.

Simon Kuper