Walter Alston Quotes

#1. I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

John Lone

#2. Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

Walter Alston

#3. Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?

Robert A. Glover

#4. I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

Walter Alston

#5. When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

Tommy Lasorda

#6. We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

#7. David Cameron was wrong on this [Brexit]. He didn't get the mood of his country right. He was very surprised to see what happened.

Donald Trump

#8. Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#9. I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

Tariq Ramadan

#10. Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants.

Walter Alston

#11. Energy wasted on negative ends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Of course managers win ball games.

Walter Alston

#13. The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

Walter Alston

#14. Everybody thinks they're a prophet. They must, or nobody would get married. Or maybe at a 50% divorce rate, only half the people are fortune tellers. Probably the men.

Jarod Kintz

#15. Do your best and forget the consequences.

Walter Alston

#16. People are always vulnerable when they're happy.

Liam McIntyre

#17. I put myself through college playing pool.

Walter Alston

#18. I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

Walter Alston

#19. I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.

Walter Alston

#20. I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Walter Alston

#21. I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

Laurence Fishburne