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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#better #carlton #conversation #days #everyone

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#best #bird #energy #game #gretzky

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#call #gives #her #nation #only

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bachelors #consciences #married #married men #men

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cheated #happier #sometimes #suffer #than

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ambition #cannot #cured #exalted #favour

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#always #eye #know #may #never

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#merriment #more #nothing #scheme #than

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#duty #good #only #principles #strong

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#been #care #endeavors #every #every man