Top 100 Sammy Quotes
#1. Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
Sammy Hagar
#2. To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.
Sammy Sosa
#3. I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
Sammy Hagar
#4. If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.
Sammy Cahn
#5. If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#6. What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.
Mark McGwire
#7. Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.
Sammy Hagar
#8. People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
Dionne Warwick
#9. The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.
Sammy Sutton
#10. Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#11. Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch.
Sammy Nelson
#12. The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#13. It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
Sammy Hagar
#14. They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me.
Sammy Sosa
#15. When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.
Sammy Hagar
#16. Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
Sammy Sosa
#17. I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.
Sammy Sosa
#18. Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.
Bobby Vinton
#19. Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#20. When you're depressed, it's like you pick up one of those shields in a video game, but instead of protecting your life power, it blocks you from being able to receive any affirmation or encouragement.
Sammy Rhodes
#21. Put it in their face," Gotti urged Sammy the Bull Gravano. "They want to see fucking lions and tigers and that's what we are.
Selwyn Raab
#22. Afterall, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another humanbeing is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love. Antonio; Hidden Mountain
Sammy Sutton
#23. The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.
Sammy Cahn
#25. In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#26. The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
Sammy Hagar
#27. If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
Sammy Hagar
#28. Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#29. I don't know what to do about him, Sammy." (Jackie)
"It's not what you do about him. It's what you do with him. Grab him by those big, manly arms that I'm assuming he has, and show him what New York has to offer.
Ali Novak
#30. I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.
Sammy Hagar
#31. He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
Chris Crutcher
#32. I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
Sammy Hagar
#33. Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.
Rafael Soriano
#34. I'm going to live my life like I've got one life to live.
Sammy Kershaw
#36. I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it.
Stacey Lee
#38. No fish were biting. Not that morning. She heard James calling her with panic in his voice. Slowly, she trudged back to her family. "I told you," Sammy said to James, "because the fishing line was
Cynthia Voigt
#39. Very much on the defensive, I admitted that I liked to read.
"Sure," Sammy said, "I never said I had anything against reading books ... "
"The publishers will be relieved to know that," I tried to insert, but Sammy was too quick for me and was already rounding the bend of his next sentence.
Budd Schulberg
#40. anyway and have racks of them in the shop. Sammy would help her by pointing her in the right direction for selling her art. Sammy knew all the commercial art
Jennie Jones
#41. Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.
Sammy Sosa
#42. My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#43. What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#44. What? Sammy Ray yelled back. It was like the Smith family had only one volume level.
Shelly Laurenston
#46. I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
Sammy Hagar
#47. Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
Sammy Cahn
#48. Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
Sammy Davis Jr.
#50. The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
Sammy Cahn
#51. I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
Sammy Hagar
#52. I glide under a sky so blue, so purple, so golden I fight as hard as anything to keep my eyes open, because I want to remember it forever, however long that lasts. Because I know it'll be the last thing I see.
Alexandra Bracken
#53. If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
Sammy Sosa
#54. Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.
Sammy Gravano
#55. One of the ways I know I shouldn't be online is when I'm looking to get something that I already have in abundance as a child of God.
Sammy Rhodes
#56. Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.
Miles Davis
#57. Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes, and the swallowing of a secret map on the point of capture by enemy troops - that passed, in his mother's kitchen, for eating.
Michael Chabon
#58. Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!
Sammy Hagar
#59. If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.
David Lee Roth
#60. Sammy felt...that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving. He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel.
Michael Chabon
#61. I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck.
Sammy Kershaw
#62. Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#63. I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#64. Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.
Anton Du Beke
#65. I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
Sammy Cahn
#66. And love is work. But it's the best kind of work there is.
Sammy Nickalls
#68. The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
Sammy Hagar
#69. I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
Sammy Sosa
#71. He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.
Sammy Baugh
#72. A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.
James Darren
#73. They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
Gary Cherone
#74. People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?
Ysabeau S. Wilce
#76. Country music is not a formula it's a music with its own soul and I'm all about saving that soul!
Sammy Kershaw
#77. I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.
Dionne Warwick
#78. I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#79. Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you know? And that's OK, you're willing to make that purchase. Sammy Davis, Jr. was 64 when he died. Give me 64 Sammy-years, I'll be happy.
Bill Maher
#80. In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
Kristin Gore
#82. She whips the hose back and forth, laughing as he chases it, the fleeting, uncatchable colors, shimmering splinters of the golden light. Catch the rainbow, Sammy! Catch the rainbow!
Rick Yancey
#83. I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#84. I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
Sammy Cahn
#86. The things we did last summer I'll remember all winter long.
Sammy Cahn
#87. The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.
Sammy Hagar
#88. Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.
Donny Osmond
#89. Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
Sammy Hagar
#90. I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
Sammy Hagar
#91. Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#92. The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#93. Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff ... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.
Valerie Sayers
#94. If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar
#95. Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
Alex Van Halen
#96. I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last
My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled in the past
And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
Sammy Cahn
#97. You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#98. You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
Sammy Sosa
#99. Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#100. There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
Sammy Davis Jr.
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