Top 100 Quotes About Majors
#1. There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus
#2. How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice.
T. Harv Eker
#3. If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.
Siegfried Sassoon
#6. Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.
Michael De Luca
#7. Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.
Isaac R. Trimble
#8. But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.
Lee Majors
#9. Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!
Roy Ayers
#10. Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable.
Tucker Max
#11. I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.
James Caan
#12. I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.
Willie Mays
#13. I swear on Peter Stuyvesant's peg leg that the country that became the U.S. bears a closer family resemblance to the devil-may-care merchants of New Amsterdam than it does to Boston's communitarian English majors.
Sarah Vowell
#14. I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.
Lee Majors
#15. I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.
Jordan Ellenberg
#16. Never practice something you're good at. All it will lead to is one major strength with many downfalls.
Behdad Sami
#17. On behalf of the newspaper industry I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We're a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.
Dave Barry
#18. The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out.
John C. Dvorak
#19. Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.
Hank Aaron
#20. During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'
Jimmy Fallon
#21. Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.
Lee Majors
#22. The major key to your better future is you.
Jim Rohn
#23. The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.
Li Yizhong
#24. I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#25. Cyberparenting is not just about rules; it's about relationship.
Mandy Majors
#26. When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.
Marco Rubio
#27. The day I got called up to the majors I wasn't feeling well. I had gone out with my friends for 'sodas' the night before.
John Flaherty
#28. The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn't fair.
Dan Jenkins
#29. Why is the world round?
Why do the suckas bite?
Why do the freaks come out at night?
Why they paint Jesus white?
I sit and wonder why we breakin hip-hop laws,
Doing videos in houses that we know ain't yours.
Lee Majors
#30. There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
David Brin
#31. I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.
Boris Kodjoe
#32. Certain majors [lables] just know what they're doin', and got a good grip on the dynamic of what's happening, and some don't.
Joe Budden
#33. It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.
Lee Majors
#34. Where the hell are you, Cimil?"
"Popping tags with Roberto," she replied.
"Popping what?" he asked.
Cimil growled. "You shame Macklemore - I'm at a thrift store. Where else would a goddess find a microwave for her potpie and a new pair of pink hot pants? And a Lee Majors doll! Score!
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#35. You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.
Tiger Woods
#36. I began to parse the sentence. This is what English majors do. It's what we're trained to do. We don't know how to do anything else, except drive cabs.
Gary Reilly
#37. When I first came up to the majors and I'd have a bad day, I'd punish myself. I would do something like not eat dinner. Now I've come to appreciate that we play 162 games a year, and you're going to have bad days. And not eating dinner hurts, it doesn't help.
Todd Helton
#38. in terms of sin, you're in the majors, and she hasn't even filled out her Little League paperwork yet." "I'll
Abigail Barnette
#39. My biggest dream is to win four Majors in a year.
Guan Tianlang
#40. A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.
Brian Tracy
#41. At most schools, if you switch majors, you basically start over. That means more semesters ... and more money. The former might be appealing, but the latter is a major problem for a demographic already saddled with student debt.
Brian Shactman
#42. Who wants to miss their opportunity of playing in a Major ... A golfer's career is all about it. The lesson I have learnt is that I will tee up for the Majors only when I am 100 percent fit.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#43. The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.
Hideki Matsui
#44. Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.
Pee Wee Reese
#45. I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not mean too much, but to me (Davis Cup) means an awful lot.
Lleyton Hewitt
#46. Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.
John McEnroe
#47. What's the easiest fucking thing to take?" I asked him. "Journalism. Those journalism majors don't do anything." "O.K., I'll be a journalist.
Charles Bukowski
#48. Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.
Willie Mays
#49. I know this is a major cultural artifact but it's bad for the community.
Dante Alighieri
#50. In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.
Mario J. Molina
#51. Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
Danica McKellar
#52. The majors are very important, and I would love to win one or many. I'll continue to compete in them hard and win if I can. There's not much more I can say. I'd love to be part of the club of people who've won majors.
Luke Donald
#53. Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
Inbee Park
#54. Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.
Linda Barnes
#55. I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.
Barry Hannah
#56. I learn the whole script before I show up.
Lee Majors
#57. The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
Dan Jenkins
#58. I think I've got one more series in me, and I don't care what it is.
Lee Majors
#59. A number of my fellow religious studies majors- muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fools good for the bright- reminded me of the three toed sloth; and the three toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
Yann Martel
#60. When we're juniors will be neck deep in our majors and stuff. Then we have to graduate and stop pretending to be adults, and do it for real. Jobs, families, all that stuff has to come next.
S.A. Huchton
#61. I had no idea how big the show was at the time we were doing it because I was always working.
Lee Majors
#62. The solution is not that people need to major in marketing in college, but that their liberal education should be more structured and demanding. Majors should have some required sequence of basic courses, as in economics.
Fareed Zakaria
#63. The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks.
Thomas Lennon
#64. the heartrending petty bourgeois piteousness of cucumber sandwiches passed around by accounting majors whose overly colorful bow ties had been expressly chosen to keep them from looking like waiters.
Nell Zink
#65. In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.
Parul Wadhwa
#66. God has a story to tell about you.
A major part of it is you telling yours.
Tosca Lee
#67. If I could just hope to have a major talent, then I would rather have it in music than in any other field.
Woody Allen
#68. The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.
Philip Berrigan
#69. I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call "inties," music distributed via the Internet. The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.
Chuck D
#70. I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.
Melanie Rawn
#71. I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.
Lee Majors
#72. I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.
Lee Majors
#73. I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.
Jim Courier
#74. Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.
Pam Shriver
#75. Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.
Kevin Gates
#76. I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.
Lee Majors
#77. There have been so many majors that got away, starting at Riviera in '95, taking a three-shot lead into the final round of the PGA and not winning.
Ernie Els
#78. You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year ... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
Bob Uecker
#79. You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
Dan Jenkins
#80. Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.
John Updike
#81. Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.
Jack Nicholson
#82. There's always motivation coming into Majors. If you can't get up and get excited to win one of these, then you probably shouldn't be playing golf.
Jason Dufner
#83. Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.
Jon Lester
#84. I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.
Alex Rodriguez
#85. Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.
Bruce Sutter
#86. What I like to do is to try to win as many tournaments and as many majors as I can, and with him [Tiger Woods] in the field, it just gives it more credibility, whatever it is I am able to accomplish.
Phil Mickelson
#87. Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.
Rachel Vincent
#88. I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.
Natalie Goldberg
#89. I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
Lee Westwood
#90. I started out wanting to coach football.
Lee Majors
#91. Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than when he was called up - Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too.
Monte Irvin
#92. A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
Thomas Boswell
#93. You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.
Roland Orzabal
#94. As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I'll continue to play.
Pete Sampras
#95. I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.
Ryan O'Neal
#96. Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.
Lee Majors
#97. The generals commanded the colonels and the colonels commanded the majors and the majors commanded the captains and the captains commanded the private, who marched with an air of proud importance because it required so many officers to give him his orders.
L. Frank Baum
#98. I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
Leonard Maltin
#99. Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.
Lewis Black
#100. Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.
Robert M. Lindner
