Alston Quotes

#1. When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

Tommy Lasorda

#2. But as Alston Chase put it, when the search for truth is confused with political

Michael Crichton

#3. Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

Walt Alston

#4. I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Walter Alston

#5. More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

Walt Alston

#6. Of course managers win ball games.

Walter Alston

#7. I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

Walt Alston

#8. The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

Walter Alston

#9. Do your best and forget the consequences.

Walter Alston

#10. When the Dublin-born Beckett was asked by a Parisian journalist whether he was English, he replied, 'On the contrary.

Terry Eagleton

#11. I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself.

Woody Allen

#12. This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.

Philip Alston

#13. I put myself through college playing pool.

Walter Alston

#14. Civil war is an exercise in building group loyalties. The trauma of civil war and massacre works not just to desocialize the victims but to socialize the killers into a particular ethical and political stance. Men who had killed together were bound together.

Richard Alston

#15. When Duncan did arrive a half hour later, I hugged him and didn't let go. He seemed a little embarrassed to be receiving such a public display of affection. After all, he did try his very best to barbeque me once. But that didn't matter now.

B. Alston

#16. I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

Walter Alston

#17. If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.

Sarah Dessen

#18. I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.

Walter Alston

#19. Why is it anytime somethin's different, it's automatically wrong? That single principle has caused more suffering and tragedy than any other in the history of the world. Our actions make is good or evil, Ana. Nothin more. Nothin' less. (Grey Eyes, Forever Trilogy Part One)

Brandon Alston

#20. The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

Geno Auriemma

#21. Friends don't let friends become BossHoles! Or work for one either.

Greg L. Alston

#22. It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.

Walt Alston

#23. Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

Walter Alston

#24. I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

Walter Alston

#25. Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

Wendell Phillips

#27. Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing.

Philip Alston

#28. Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Walt Alston

#29. Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants.

Walter Alston

#30. Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.

Simone Elkeles

#31. Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

Walt Alston

#32. All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.

Chuck Yeager

#33. I promised you that i would always find you, didn't I?

B. Alston

#34. When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.

Alston Chase

#35. We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.

Ari Fleischer

#36. I believe that it was the highest privilege of my life to wear the uniform of the United States Marine Corps. I don't believe the country owes me anything for doing so, but that my serving was partial payment on what I owe our country - a debt that can be never fully paid, but with my life.

Robert Hall

#37. Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.

Lady Starlight