M. Jackson Quotes

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

There's nothing wrong with fighting for the right things.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.

October: that's when they pay off for playing ball.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Everybody has to learn that the world works in very specific ways, and you're not in charge of it.

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.

I act the way I talk. It probably comes from starting out in Second City, improvisational theater. I can go from take to take. I'll ask for another take.

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

If there's an interesting role that comes up as a great support role in a decent picture, then I'll do that.

I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

I make love to pressure.

Press on, press on, men.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

Some folks get nauseous, have body cramping -- they will get lightheaded and get a sense of fatigue.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

Flesh is weak, but love is strong.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.