R- THE DON Quotes

We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.

You have to learn to play with what you've got.

Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.

I've always been pretty serious and introspective.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

I'm the most unracist person around.

I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

As long as I could pitch a little, no one cared that I was getting drunk.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector.

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

The truth is, I’d give it all up to be a rock star.

I think we're looking at the next major superstar in golf. Tiger has a flair for the dramatic and one of those smiles that lights up the screen.

And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

No one is in a more strategic position than you are to influence the people you are with.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.

I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.

Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.

My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.

I don't do impressions.

I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt.

I never went out looking for glory.

I was a mother's boy.

I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.

Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States.

Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.

Those who grew up digital have different brains.