Gil Hodges Quotes

#1. No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a
learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but
everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner,
and it caused me to do the same with my job.

Tom Seaver

#2. He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

Casey Stengel

#3. If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

Pee Wee Reese

#4. It's a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase, to get back to where I would love to see us win the championship, ... Is it a reality next year You've seen a lot of things happen in the sport and you look at it and ask 'How'd that happen'

Robbie Loomis

#5. Your sensitivity is overwhelming," Ethan said. "Someday remind me to explain to you what empathy is.

Blake Crouch

#6. I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.

Patricia MacLachlan

#7. I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.

Gil Hodges

#8. Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

George R R Martin

#9. Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don't become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

Dalai Lama

#10. Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.

Gil Hodges

#11. Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.

Gil Hodges

#12. The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel.

Emma Stone

#13. Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

Walker Percy

#14. Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris.

Brian Celio

#15. You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.

Shannyn Sossamon

#16. I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

John Lydon

#17. Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.

Gil Hodges

#18. There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

Gil Hodges

#19. Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.

Gil Hodges

#20. Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

Ilka Chase

#21. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.

Lena Dunham

#22. 'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie.

John Rhys-Davies

#23. Two daughters, pretty enough
but with hearts like blackjacks.

Anne Sexton