Mccovey Willie Quotes & Sayings

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us? — Charles Spurgeon

There's something better than an 'excuse' for your mistake, which is 'now you know how to stop it from happening again'. — Mohith Agadi

And we all know how ladies get minks ... "
Popsy and Sandra chorused the answer together. "The same way minks get minks! — Suzy Duffy

I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I? — Willie McCovey

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in. — Willie McCovey

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now. — Jerry Coleman

In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades. — Willie McCovey

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right. — Willie McCovey

I had talked for years about doing a restaurant with Rocky Dudum, who's been my friend since I first came to San Francisco. Then Rocky's son, Jeff, said he wanted to design it, so he traveled around the country to sports restaurants like Mickey Mantle's and Michael Jordan's, and he came up with a great concept. — Willie McCovey

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations. — Willie McCovey

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for schools but not for Fajr. — Nouman Ali Khan

I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that. — Willie McCovey

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either. — Jerry Coleman

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person. — Willie McCovey

I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that. — Willie McCovey

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Trust is the first step to love. — Munshi Premchand

She had seeped into his consciousness so thoroughly, absorbing all lucid thought, that not only could he think of nothing else but no longer cared to. — Jojo Moyes

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate. — Willie McCovey

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written. — Luke Bryan

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal. — Willie McCovey

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin — John Geddes

It doesn't become important until you don't have it anymore. — Jenny Han

We know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a laggardly manner to these opportunities made available by God to us. God made the call come out of your homeland; Abraham by coming out was exercising obedience. There was the instruction come into the land; it was done, and that was the work of obedience. But the addition which I shall show you has to do with the grace of God, who gave a command - and a promise. — John Cassian

Winning is a serious matter. — Willie McCovey