#agu

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#focused #honestly #i #i can #league

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#came #dollars #game #get #go

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. ↗

— William Safire

#cliches #last #least #like #plague

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. ↗

— William Safire

#answer #bandied #brought #call #colleague

The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform. ↗

— Ryne Sandberg

#fourth #game #i #league #major

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#colleagues #engaged #here #i #knowledge

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be. ↗

— George Saunders

#could #explaining #feel #i #insulted

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#against #colleagues #democrats #door #fact

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#big leagues #got #i #idiot #leagues

We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#change #colleagues #course #economic #economic recovery