Boras Quotes & Sayings

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living. — Keir Hardie

To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back. — Robin Sharma

Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is. — Robert Townsend

My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins. — Scott Boras

The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team. — Scott Boras

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. — Seneca.

Drew is a player that comes along once every 20 years. Not even Barry Bonds can be compared to J.D. Drew. — Scott Boras

If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative. — Scott Boras

You promised me one night. I want you next to me tonight. We have the rest of our lives to be apart. — S.H. Kolee

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux. — Darl McBride

They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important mental tool a person can possess?"
It was a serious question, and Eragon considered it for a reasonable span before he ventured to say, "Determination."
Oromis tore the loaf in half with his long white fingers. "I can understand why you arrived at that conclusion-determination has served you well in your adventures-but no. I meant the tool most necessary to choose the best course of action in any given situation. Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects. So, no, determination cannot be what we're looking for. — Christopher Paolini

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government. — Barack Obama

Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent. — Joe Torre

I don't think there are that many parts I could say unequivocally "I would not play that," but there's lots of parts I read and I think, "I don't really want to do that. I don't really think that's how women act." — Maggie Gyllenhaal

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day. — Henry David Thoreau

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself ... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain. — John Tavener

I was diagnosed with a lung disorder that some people walk around with and don't even know they have. Through early diagnosis, I'm happy to share that I stay healthy with diet and exercise. — Tisha Campbell-Martin

On the other side, I do think there's a melding in there. There are situations
I've done contracts for Carlos Gonzalez, or just recently I did one for Elvis Andrus
to where there is a melding of the club's wants and the player's wants where you do things in advance of free agency. — Scott Boras

People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to pay fair market value. — Scott Boras

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc. — Jason Calacanis

People call me all the time and say, "Man, your players aren't signed yet." Well, it doesn't really matter what time dinner is when you're the steak. — Scott Boras