Ethier Quotes

#1. If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.

Rob James-Collier

#2. The price of freedom - of individuality - is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

Greg Bear

#3. I just want to take advantage of every day that I'm in the lineup.

Andre Ethier

#4. If we want to feel deeply about God, we must learn to think deeply about God.

Jen Wilkin

#5. I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

Lev Grossman

#6. Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.

Andre Ethier

#7. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

B.C. Forbes

#8. I just have to be confident and actually try to do less, not try to do more.

Andre Ethier

#9. Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. You could have a season where you hit .330 and did all these great things, but nothing ever materialized from it and you went home October One. Or you could hit .260 and have key hits and key plays on defense that help your team get to the playoffs and win the World Series.

Andre Ethier

#11. A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

Warren Buffett

#12. All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

Peter Shaffer

#13. I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die.

Jim Baen

#14. Christian faith is not (not always? not usually?) a call to caution and moderation.

William C. Placher

#15. It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

Vince Gill

#16. One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

Albert Camus

#17. When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

Andre Ethier

#18. Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been given.

Malorie Blackman

#19. I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.

Cathy Moriarty

#20. They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

Andre Ethier

#21. I think everybody gets their recognition sometime down the road, and I have never been one to seek it. Besides, it has been that way throughout my career, especially in college.

Andre Ethier