Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.
‐‐ Pee Wee Reese
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
‐‐ Althea Gibson
Being chaotic isn't cute.
‐‐ Kate Reardon
Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
‐‐ Jo Brand
Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.
‐‐ John Bytheway
Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
‐‐ Jarvis Cocker
Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.
‐‐ Jonathan Zittrain
Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.
‐‐ Dwight Schultz
Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
‐‐ Bud Grant
Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different.
‐‐ Bud Grant
Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.
‐‐ Thomas Perry
Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
‐‐ Michael Phelps
Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
‐‐ Candice Swanepoel
Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.
‐‐ Leo Howard
Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman
Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It's definitely a bonus thing.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o
Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
‐‐ Beryl Bainbridge
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
‐‐ Phil Crosby
Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.
‐‐ Selena Gomez
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens
Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
‐‐ Ice T
Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
‐‐ Val Kilmer
Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.
‐‐ Jane Seymour
Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.
‐‐ Robin Thicke
Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken.
‐‐ Charlyne Yi
Being dead is being weak and walled off.
‐‐ Richard McKenna
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.
‐‐ John Ortberg
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.
‐‐ Michael Shermer
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
‐‐ Lao Tzu
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
‐‐ Nell Carter
Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.
‐‐ Charlie Kimball
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
‐‐ Jean Kerr
Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.
‐‐ Henry Winkler
Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.
‐‐ Guy Lafleur
Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio
Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
‐‐ Thom Filicia
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
‐‐ David Bailey
Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.
‐‐ Jose Garces
Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.
‐‐ Julian Assange
Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.
‐‐ Masayoshi Son
Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
‐‐ Alexis Ohanian
Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln
Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley
Being engaged is absolutely a time to cherish!
‐‐ Camila Alves
Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hurley