Quotes About Kirby Puckett

#1. On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.

Bud Selig

#2. He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

Jim Leyland

#3. I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

Nancy Greene

#4. I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

Kirby Puckett

#5. who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?

Vampire Weekend

#6. In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#7. Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Kirby Puckett

#8. The masks had been made in Korea, delivering back to the West the faces they had given the rest of the globe: presidents, screen stars, and mass murderers. The rubber filament inevitably snapped from the staple after five minutes. The graft wouldn't take.

Colson Whitehead

#9. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#10. When you yield yourself in complete and wholehearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

Jim George

#11. Tomorrow isn't promised to any of us.

Kirby Puckett

#12. Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

Kirby Puckett

#13. I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

Mandy Patinkin

#14. I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

Kirby Puckett

#15. I'm going to listen to John Elway. He knows what he's talking about.

Tim Tebow

#16. A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

#17. Maybe we're just prisoners of our biology.

Jonathan Kellerman

#18. We have to reduce our expectations of England and we have the players to do it

Steve McClaren

#19. The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day ... '.

William Arthur Ward