David Duchovny Quotes

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest.

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

St. Louis is still a special place for me. I still have my home there. I live there in the offseason. I enjoyed playing in front of 40,000 people every day. I tried to do my best to help the organization win. I had success there. We won two World Series. We went to three. That's something you can't take from me.

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

We cannot dwell on remembered glory.

I have a picture on my phone of me and Audra McDonald from when I went stage door-ing at 'Ragtime' in high school. I always keep it there because I try to remember how important that was to me.

I know Reggie Jackson is a good player.

I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred years, or a place that has been, or that was - in your imagination. I think that also embodies the American spirit. You are looking for what you can call "a place."

I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

The Warrior remembers the past.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.