Ruppert Quotes

#1. During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'

Peter Golenbock

#2. It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.

Jacob Ruppert

#3. Until you change the way money works, you change nothing.

Michael Ruppert

#4. We all have light and dark inside us, what matters is the path we decide to take.

Stephenie Meyer

#5. Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'll ether be dead or with us. It's ... it's more than we could hope for!
Well, that's a sunny view of our situation.

Suzanne Collins

#6. What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

Candace Bushnell

#7. For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

Jim Hodges

#8. When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with a straight face, Dulles is reported to have said, "The American people don't read.

Michael C. Ruppert

#9. As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter more than another, thus, all my actions should be considered potentially important and worthy of my best effort.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#10. Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#11. Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.

Michael Ruppert

#12. The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly occurred to me that here was a prospect to become interested in a major-league club at home.

Jacob Ruppert

#13. It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.

Jacob Ruppert

#14. I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Jacob Ruppert

#15. Im not advocating social Darwinism, I am witnessing actual Darwinism.
If you are in a camp with a bunch of campers, and a bear attacks, you don't have to be faster than the bear.
You only have to be faster than the slowest camper

Michael Ruppert

#16. Memories are not dead things, but alive; they dwindle in disuse, but they harden and develop in all sorts of queer ways if they are being continually fretted.

H.G.Wells

#17. I am surprised you didn't whack your head on an overhanging branch back there. I have never seen anyone leap straight up off the ground the way you did when you saw that snake! It would make a good move for our next dance. Do you think you could teach the others? The snake jump?

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#18. I promise to tidy up before company arrives, wouldn't want my socks and daydreams all over the carpet

Sarah Kay

#19. Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#20. Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person.

Kreayshawn

#21. The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express,

Michael Ruppert

#22. Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have their head examined.

Michael Ruppert

#23. All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

Michael Ruppert

#24. God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

Joseph Caryl

#25. That's it, Skyco. That is the way to be a hunter. Never be in a hurry, never rush things. Wait until the prey is within your grasp, then strike swiftly and strike hard. Don't miss or it may be a long time before another opportunity appears.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#26. Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

Michael Ruppert

#27. Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#28. Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.

Jacob Ruppert

#29. One tragic example of this orientation is the rampant prescription of painkillers, which now kill more people each year in the United States than guns or car accidents.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#30. When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.

Jacob Ruppert

#31. Part of her had hoped he would say something like, "I want you, Katie. You belong to me now. I'll take care of you." He didn't say that. But his answer was the best one, really. "You belong to Christ, Katie.

Robin Jones Gunn

#32. Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

Jacob Ruppert

#33. In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.

Jacob Ruppert