Burleigh Grimes Quotes

Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

Since when is anyone truly honest with anyone?

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

I never lie to my fans.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan cannot tell the difference.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

Don't you ever ask me for a true statement again!

There is no truth in him, and men who cannot tell the truth are not to be trusted either in public or private life.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.