Top 82 Clemens Quotes
#1. If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be
a Christian. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
George Washington
#2. Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.
Andrew Bacevich
#3. Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens has been quoted as saying he thought the Book of Mormon was "chloroform in print". For
Park B. Romney
#4. No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters - from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia - I don't know, I always think about what will be lost -
Gillian Flynn
#5. Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.
David Cone
#6. Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much ... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess.
Mindy McCready
#7. I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.
Mindy McCready
#8. Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.
David Cone
#9. She scanned Clemens from head to toe and did not seem hugely impressed, but a rushing back behind her eyes revealed she had a complex opinion.
Adrian Van Young
#10. Clemens laughed until he began coughing again. "Don't you see, James?" he said at last. "You and I are only minor characters in this story about the Great Detective. Our little lives and endings mean nothing to the God-Writer, whoever the sonofabitch might be.
Dan Simmons
#11. I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.
Paul Feig
#13. Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.
Jim Lehrer
#14. Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.
Robert D. Kaplan
#15. It's all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That's what history is all about. How we came to be here, in the way we are, the clothes we wear.
David Wiseman
#16. I told the truth about steroids and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his direction.
Unfortunately, Roger has denied this and has led a full-court attack on my credibility
Jim Lehrer
#17. Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.
Mark Twain
#18. But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not.
Al Leiter
#19. You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.
Andy Pettitte
#20. Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.
Randy Johnson
#21. Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.
Jim Lehrer
#22. Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
Adelaide Clemens
#23. I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively).
Roger Clemens
#24. I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed.
Roger Clemens
#25. If we don't really listen, we end up doing what we think is best-- which usually isn't best at all.
S.N. Clemens
#26. I've done a lot of independent film, which are short shoots that are usually four to six weeks, max. I enjoy everything. After one particular experience of work, I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.
Adelaide Clemens
#27. I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.
Roger Clemens
#28. Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.
Susy Clemens
#29. Sometimes this genius goes dark and drowns in the bitter wells of his heart.
Clemens Brentano
#30. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.
Roger Clemens
#31. I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.
Roger Clemens
#32. Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.
Roger Clemens
#33. But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play.
Roger Clemens
#34. I've been very fortunate. I feel very thankful. I've been able to come home and do some fun things and make it exciting for people here at home.
Roger Clemens
#35. God's will isn't always what we expect. Sometimes it 'sneaks up' on us.
S.N. Clemens
#37. He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.
Roger Clemens
#38. I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.'
Adelaide Clemens
#39. But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.
James Clemens
#40. Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.
Roger Clemens
#41. I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.
Adelaide Clemens
#43. The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.
Clemens Winkler
#44. You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.
Roger Clemens
#45. If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.
Roger Clemens
#46. I've lost a little bit of my fire ... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.
Roger Clemens
#47. The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.
Roger Clemens
#48. He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
Roger Clemens
#49. It gives me... gives me hope.
In second chances. In the different manifestations of love. In the inexplicable avenues of God's grace.
S.N. Clemens
#50. I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.
Roger Clemens
#51. Heavy as such things are
After the wordslide, the writing begins."
From "Word Quake
Eileen Granfors
#52. My only day off is the day I pitch (in regards to how hard he works out during off-days).
Roger Clemens
#55. Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
Roger Clemens
#56. I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
Adelaide Clemens
#57. His will isn't always obvious, it doesn't always make sense, and it isn't always what we want. But that doesn't mean it's not good.
S.N. Clemens
#58. The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.
Roger Clemens
#59. Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.
Roger Clemens
#60. If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.
Roger Clemens
#61. I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.
Roger Clemens
#62. If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.
Roger Clemens
#63. When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.
Roger Clemens
#64. Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying ...
Spring Flight
Eileen Granfors
#65. I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.
Roger Clemens
#66. I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
Adelaide Clemens
#67. I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.
Adelaide Clemens
#68. Repression is sometimes a precious gift our minds offer us when faced with trauma.
Andrea Clemens
#69. College baseball, I love it. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step.
Roger Clemens
#70. Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.
Roger Clemens
#71. Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
Adelaide Clemens
#72. Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.
Roger Clemens
#73. But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys.
Roger Clemens
#74. The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
Roger Clemens
#75. When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.
Roger Clemens
#76. I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
Adelaide Clemens
#77. In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
Adelaide Clemens
#78. There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one.
Susy Clemens
#79. It is better for a man to remain silent and appear a fool, then to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
Samuel Clemens
#80. My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done.
Roger Clemens
#81. It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.
Roger Clemens
#82. I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.
Adelaide Clemens
