Will Davis Quotes

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.

Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.

The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

Ideas rise with new mornings but never die.

I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do anything. And it's really hard to avoid those.

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.

Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else.

When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.

My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.

Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.

I just love all the details about movies, and it's fun to be involved in everything. I just love it. It's just a little added fun thing to be consulted about stuff.

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.

If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the shelf and put it up next to my Oscar. That's where we put our trophies.

I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.

My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.