Jerry West Quotes

I certainly do not want to be remembered as a good captain who perhaps didn't contribute with the bat as much as he might have done.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

Audiences deserve better.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let's take their values and their strengths and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes to keep America the greatest country in the history of man.

When you play this game, you're not just playing for yourself and your fans. You also play for a name you have to represent. You have a family that's hoping you do good every single day.

I think there is a price to being alone, and there is a price to being in a relationship. It all depends on which price you want to pay - but none of them are free.

There's always a time in a relationship when you can pull back. Three years ago when I realized I was falling for a guy with a complicated medical history, I decided not to exit. Believe me, I made the right decision.

And when I hang up my boots and gloves at the end, I want to tell myself I gave everything to the sport.

I did have to turn down things in the past, which I was upset about sometimes, but I understood I was part of 'Strictly Come Dancing.'

I received an offer from China: I would've earned an incredible sum. But Napoli didn't want me to go, and I wanted to stay. So nothing came of it.