J. H. Evans Quotes

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me.

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.

I always wanted to sing, as a child.

When you're working, you're flying on someone else's buck. When you're flying on your own, you sort of go, 'You know what, I'd rather keep the dosh in my pocket to spend when I get there.

The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.

It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.

Once our people get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being our people.

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.

Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize you’ve made too much of it, to remember it doesn’t define you.

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.

If we are to experience true worship, our love for God has to supersede our love of anyone and anything else.

Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.

Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.

Write like no one's going to read it !

The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

The best people in the world are in LA.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'

When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.

Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.