Will Weaver Quotes

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.