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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.


Casey Stengel
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When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?
Ryne Sandberg
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.


Earl Nightingale
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
Hank Aaron
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In 2007, I hit 50 home runs. That was pretty cool. I never thought I'd be able to do that. At the time, I didn't even think it was that big of a deal for some reason. But now, looking back, I realize it was pretty cool.
Prince Fielder
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Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
Allan Sherman
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.


Carly Schroeder
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
Seth Godin
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It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.


Dennis Prager
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We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.
Mary Schapiro
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When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.
Jerry Doyle
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The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'
Harbhajan Singh
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An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
Nicholas Meyer
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Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.


Linus Torvalds
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.


Barry Gibb
I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.
Doug Collins
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With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.


Kelli O'Hara
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I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.
Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.


Aldous Huxley
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.


Allen Iverson