Scott Rolen Quotes

#1. I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

Scott Rolen

#2. Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

Scott Rolen

#3. Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

Eve Ensler

#4. My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

Scott Rolen

#5. I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

Garry Kasparov

#6. I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

Scott Rolen

#7. The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.

Scott Rolen

#8. Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...

Stephen Jay Gould

#9. I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way.

Scott Rolen

#10. I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?

Scott Rolen

#11. Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

Barry Ritholtz

#12. We need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

John C. Maxwell

#13. Those who want power do not deserve it.
And those who deserve power do not want it.

J.K. Rowling

#14. I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.

Scott Rolen

#15. As if one was mistaken in believing that love protects life. As if it were a lie that love is a blessing.

Unica Zurn

#16. Different people, different backgrounds, different ideals ... We walk in different doors at the beginning of the day, and we walk out of different doors at the end of the day. But when it is time to go out on that field, we all go through the same door.

Scott Rolen

#17. When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked.

Anthony Horowitz

#18. I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

Eve Ensler

#19. Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold
Athena heading out on a Friday night.

Jim Butcher

#20. I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle ... I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.

Scott Rolen

#21. Finally getting control of myself, I kissed her again, then brought my hand to her face, gently running my fingers over her cheek. I marveled at the softness of her skin, the gentleness I saw in her eyes. Even now she was perfect.

Nicholas Sparks

#22. Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

Norman Doidge

#23. I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

Scott Rolen

#24. I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

Scott Rolen