Carl Hubbell Quotes

#1. If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

Carl Hubbell

#2. We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Bill McKibben

#3. I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

Donovan Bailey

#4. They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

Carl Hubbell

#5. As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

Carl Hubbell

#6. I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and how hard and wide his chest was and how hot his kiss was, and I got outside and feed the chickens. They are getting mighty fat.

Nancy E. Turner

#7. A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

Ivan Reitman

#8. It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

Carl Hubbell

#9. The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

John Lanchester

#10. Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#11. The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

Richard Petty

#12. Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

Carl Hubbell

#13. The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Carl Hubbell

#14. A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Carl Hubbell

#15. And I grin back at him, while the last rays of sunlight spark along his face.

Michelle Andreani

#16. I've got to be willing to enter into and do battle with the confusion in order to reach the victory on the other side. It's like, I am here, confusion is in front of me, and just beyond confusion waits the answer or skill I need to take my life in a new and incredible direction.

Andy Andrews

#17. It is more important to be of service than successful.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#18. Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

Carl Hubbell

#19. I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely ... gone.

Meghan O'Rourke

#20. I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.

Carl Hubbell