David Duffield Quotes

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

I don't think I was a hero. I was just doing my job.

I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military.

My humbleness and the work I do each day speak for me.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.