Peter Ueberroth Quotes

#1. This is America's Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud.

Peter Ueberroth

#2. A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

Peter Ueberroth

#3. Hummingbirds certainly communicate important things to humankind about our world_including the power, grace and beauty that can be found in a very small being.

Leslie Forsberg

#4. So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

Chuck D

#5. The international game has changed for bidding cities.

Peter Ueberroth

#6. Michelle Kwan means more to the United States Olympic Committee than maybe any athlete that's every performed. She's a leader, she's been gracious, she's somebody to cherish forever. She's a real loss to the United States Olympic Committee, to the United States of America and, I think, to the world.

Peter Ueberroth

#7. The integrity of the game is everything.

Peter Ueberroth

#8. Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

Peter Ueberroth

#9. Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Peter Ueberroth

#10. Bob Mathias was one of those rare individuals with the ability to inspire a nation through his determination and perseverance. He was a champion in every aspect of life, and he embraced the values that make our country and the worldwide Olympic movement special

Peter Ueberroth

#11. The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea.

Meir Kahane

#12. No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

Bertrand Russell

#13. Authority is 20% given and 80% taken ... so take it!

Peter Ueberroth

#14. It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

Peter Ueberroth

#15. Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

Wayne Dyer

#16. The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

Peter Ueberroth

#17. As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.

Thomas Hobbes

#18. It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Marya Mannes

#19. Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.

Peter Ueberroth