Westbrook Quotes & Sayings

There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it. — Russell Westbrook

I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people. — Jimi Westbrook

The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"? — Westbrook Pegler

You see a whole bunch of different looks in the NBA. Guys, like LeBron, have stylists now, and they do their own thing. Then you have Russell Westbrook, whose style is a little different. Every guy is wearing outfits to show their personality. — Chandler Parsons

Staying on the path of who you are and not trying to be anyone else is the key to anything you're doing. — Jimi Westbrook

Since the days of Peter the Great, Russia had looked to the West for her civilization, even to the extend of adopting French as a second language - or as a first for people of station and learning. The United States, recently cut loose politically from England, still drew heavily on the Old World for her art, literature, science and philosophy. Intellectuals from both nations flocked to Europe in search of eduction and aesthetic stimulation, and many became so enthralled with European civilization that they failed to return. In Russia as well as in the United States many an indignant patriot would rant about the need for serving European apron strings. — Perry D. Westbrook

I'm confident in some of the things that I wear, regardless of what other people are wearing. — Russell Westbrook

It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it" UNKNOWN — Bill Westbrook

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. — Westbrook Pegler

My Nana Westbrook, true as a saint's prayer, always used to say the Devil was a woman thought up by the Good Lord Himself to test a man's mettle and drag him down to Hell if he came up short and, Lordy, I sure as hell kept my granny's wise words to heart, God rest her soul, never once dipping my stick in a place where it might get snapped. — Ojo Blacke

Westbrook: 10 triple-doubles and carrying that team, injury-prone, into the playoffs. LeBron being the best player in the world. But I think right now I would go with James Harden because of what he's done. He's stepped up his game defensively. He's not a great defender but he's competing on the defensive end. — Mark Jackson

In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them
Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams. — Red Smith

I am eternally 12 years old. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I like to have a good time! — Jimi Westbrook

Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated ... I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me. — Westbrook Pegler

A friend is like an oreo, its not always that great, but it always gets better! — Erinn Westbrook

Women without men are usually nervous ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I am definitely not a light packer. My thought is you never know what the weather will be like or what you will feel like wearing that day, so I always have multiple bags with me - even for a two-day trip. — Russell Westbrook

Valentine's Day's not for men. — Russell Westbrook

You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it. — Jimi Westbrook

Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds. — Russell Westbrook

Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the Cold War, that she ought to be called and required to testify about what she knew. I remember he said, "Would the world vanish in a blast of flame if this old woman were subpoenaed and compelled to tell what she knows about the Communist Party's activities in the United States?" — William A. Rusher

For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying to take those strides forward to find a place to sing, to make a music career. It was small increments, but I always knew that I had to take the next opportunity. — Jimi Westbrook

My Mom and I shopped all the time, she shops all the time, and I was always into fashion. I've been blessed to be in a situation where I can now buy some of the things that look good. — Russell Westbrook

I'm a big fan of the Foo Fighters, Ben Harper, Amos Lee, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae and Chris Thile ... to name a few. — Jimi Westbrook

I have fears, but I do not fear anything or anybody on the court. — Russell Westbrook

Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes — Riley Amos Westbrook

In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure. — Russell Westbrook

Shoes make an outfit. You can throw on a crazy shirt and crazy pants but you add those shoes - done. — Russell Westbrook

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.) — Westbrook Pegler

I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to. — Russell Westbrook

If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things. — Russell Westbrook

My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me. — Russell Westbrook

So much of our future lies in preserving our past. — Peter Westbrook

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

You just never know when you're going into eternity. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. — Russell Westbrook

From the time I sang my first solo in church when I was probably 12 years old, I was bitten by the bug. From that point on, I never wanted to do anything else. — Jimi Westbrook

It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. — Westbrook Pegler

I say, 'Why not' to everything. — Russell Westbrook

Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day. — Russell Westbrook

I have learned that part of the formula for success is to keep quiet about your objective until you get it. Just as the universe is filled with positive energy waiting to join your own, there is also destructive energy emanating from people who do not like you. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Food is the most primitive form of comfort. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said. — Russell Westbrook

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. — Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive. — Westbrook Pegler

I am a member of the rabble in good standing. — Westbrook Pegler

Be careful what you want, for you will get it. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up. — Russell Westbrook

I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs. — Russell Westbrook

We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action! ... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over ... — Westbrook Pegler

Some parents struggle with separating the teacher role and the parent role. While of course you are the same person, it is easiest if you can set a teaching atmosphere by stepping into a teacher role. This isn't the time to scold the child for not doing the dishes or having a messy room. School time is the time for following up on assignments and teaching math, language and science. — Carlee Westbrook

I have a certain taste, and I might be like, 'I like this,' when other people are like, 'I can't wear that.' And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not. — Russell Westbrook

meantime, here is a list of degrees for five of the nerdiest writers: J. STEWART BURNS BS Mathematics, Harvard University MS Mathematics, UC Berkeley DAVID S. COHEN BS Physics, Harvard University MS Computer Science, UC Berkeley AL JEAN BS Mathematics, Harvard University KEN KEELER BS Applied Mathematics, Harvard University PhD Applied Mathematics, Harvard University JEFF WESTBROOK BS Physics, Harvard University PhD Computer Science, Princeton University — Simon Singh