Vida Blue Quotes

I think who I am on the court is who I am in person.

When you sign your name on the dotted line, it's more than just playing baseball. You have a responsibility to make good decisions and show people how things are supposed to be done.

Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see... be your son.

I've never been no superficial cat.

Bill Haskell was real.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

Someone who's honest about their golf game, I think, is a person who's right in the world.

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person.

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.

The true athlete should have character, not be a character

There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.

Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.

As you talk, so is your heart.

He [Bogie] had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.