Say What?, Sandy Foster [management books to read TXT] 📗

Author’s Note

The spoken word, song lyrics, speeches, poems, movie quotes, etc., have always fascinated me. On too many occasions to count, someone said, wrote, or sang something that stood out as something to think about, funny, sad, or somehow evoke another emotion, explained or unexplained. In some cases, one of these quotes would wake a long forgotten memory or forgotten person.

The quotes contained in these pages have been collected from my freshman year in high school until the time this has been printed. The collection may never be completed. Some of the quotes are by people I know, famous people, and there are many also are anonymous. Those that are not cited for a particular person are unknown.

I hope the quotes contained herein bring you the same feelings and inspiration that they brought me.


Sandy Foster


1. “Take time to laugh; is the music of the soul.”
2. “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” – Lou Gehrig
3. I never knew how someone dying could consider himself the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.” – Mickey Mantle
4. “Only a life loved for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
5. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up” – Babe Ruth
6. “You can’t agree with everyone all the time.” – Me
7. “I’m so happy!!” – Mr. Herrmann
8. “I’m harmless.” – MacGyver
9. “Take my advice, stay young.” – Jimmy Kendall, MacGyver
10. “And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.” –The Wizard to the Tinman, The Wizard of Oz
11. “Now I know I have a hear, ‘cause it’s breaking.” – Tinman, The Wizard of Oz
12. “We’re not laughing at you. We’re laughing near you.” – Mr. Keating, Dead Poets’ Society
13. “‘Carpe Diem’. Even if it kills me.” – Knox Overstreet, Dead Poets’ Society
14. “All emotion is involuntary when genuine.” – Mark Twain
15. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti
16. “Live life to its fullest, too bas we’re not cats.” – Nick Carter
17. “I think therefore I am.” – Descartes
18. “We make too many wrong mistakes.’ – Yogi Berra
19. “When in doubt, tell the truth.” – Mark Twain
20. “Anything easy is more trouble than it’s worth.”
21. “Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they never cease to be amused.”
22. “In heaven everything is fine.”
23. “Some people come into our lives and leave quickly. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts.”
24. “Believe in yourself.”
25. “Be successful.” – Mr. Melvin
26. “Monkey see, monkey do.”
27. “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.”
28. “Finish strong.”
29. “I’ve found from past experiences that the tighter your plan, the more likely you are to run into something unpredictable.” – MacGyver, “The Heist”
30. “That’s when I usually get a call: when someone’s in trouble and needs some rescuing.” – MacGyver
31. “I’m not perfect. Yet.” – MacGyver
32. “When I was a kid, I used to have nightmares and you used to tell me that being scared’s a lot worse when you’re all alone. – MacGyver to Harry
33. “Strangers in a strange land.”
34. “Every single act of love bears the imprint of God.”
35. “In everything, give thanks.” – I Thessalonians 5:18 KJV
36. “There’s always something for which to be thankful.” – Charles Dickens
37. “Life is short. Make it sweet.”
38. “Trust.” – Lowell Michelson
39. “May the force be with you.” – Obi Wan Kenobi
40. “‘Tomorrow, tomorrow, just not today,’ that’s what all the lazy people say.”
41. “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1
42. “Some people are scared of anybody who runs free.” – MacGyver
43. “I don’t waste time on the impossible.” – Trumbo, “Trumbo’s World”, MacGyver
44. “You gotta be careful what you wish for, it just might come true.” -- MacGyver
45. “This is one of those times when you go one way or the other and the rest of your life depends upon which way you pick.” – Al, MacGyver
46. “Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.” – Earl Campbell
47. “A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.” – Billie Jean King
48. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.” – Babe Ruth
49. “I’d rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.” – Ted Williams
50. “When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.” – Terry Bradshaw
51. “What a beautiful part of the world. It has everything but people.” – MacGyver
52. “Hey, you’re like me. You make do with what you got.” – Lisa, MacGyver
53. ““Like the magician said, ‘A little misdirection never hurt.’” – MacGyver
54. “Aw, c’mon, where’s your sense of adventure?” – MacGyver
55. “Dreams are important, otherwise sleep is just eight hours of nothing.” – Jimmy Kendall, MacGyver
56. ““I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.” – Mike Ditka
57. “I’d go through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” – Pete Rose
58. “Experience is the name we give our mistakes.” – Fred Shero
59. “Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith
60. “Practice without improvement is meaningless” – Chuck Knox
61. “You don’t go to people with your problems, you come to your friends” – MacGyver
62. “Well, when it comes down to me against a situation, I don’t like the situation to win.” – MacGyver
63. “It’s funny how when you want time to move along, it never does; but when you’re running out of time, it disappears much too soon.” – MacGyver
64. “When I was a child, I thought as a child and did as a child, but when I became an adult, I gave up childish things.” – Apostle Paul
65. “Small things come in big packages.”
66. “Childhood is over the moment you know you’re going to die.” – Crow
67. “I think if you try hard enough and make the best of a situation, the situation won’t get the best of you.” – MacGyver
68. “Love God.” – Todd Miller
69. “The game’s not over until it’s over.” – Yogi Berra
70. “Some people are so smart they don’t know what they know.”
71. “Why insult a door’s purpose by locking it.”
72. “Be thankful.”
73. “You can’t bring back yesterday just as much as you can’t skip today.”
74. “Today is yesterday’s tomorrow.”
75. “You get put in the record book one way or another. Where you get put is up to you.” Coach Ross
76. “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun; and when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” – Joe Namath
77. “To play baseball was all I lived for.” – Mickey Mantle
78. “Skiing’s fun. Avalanches are dangerous.” – MacGyver
79. ““Don’t you think six feet under is taking ‘laying low’ a little far?” – MacGyver
80. “He’s got honesty the way some people have diseases…. Incurable.” – Jack, MacGyver
81. “Sometimes I just hate it when I’m right.” – MacGyver
82. “Don’t do the crime if you can’t pay the time.”
83. “’Yes’ means ‘yes’ and ‘no’ means ‘no’.”
84. “Death is the last great adventure.”
85. “The fulfillment of your every wish means the destruction of your every dream.”
86. “Doubt yourself and doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above the judgment and you can see forever.”
87. “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
88. “Dreams are almost always taller than you are. That’s why you have to really reach to make them come true.”
89. “I don’t give a rat’s pajamas about the money.” – MacGyver
90. “Funny thing about running is that you always end up taking yourself with you.” – Pete, MacGyver
91. “I’ve learned that I’ve got a lot to learn.” – Luke, MacGyver
92. “It never stops there. You got a gun. Things happen. People die.” – MacGyver
93. “Coming home is like reaching into a grab bag of memories. Some good, some of them not so good.” – MacGyver
94. “My jeep went over the side of a cliff. I died and went to Thanksgiving.” – MacGyver
95. “Your slip knot’s not slipping.” – MacGyver
96. “I need a plane. I need a pilot. I need you, Jack.” – MacGyver
97. “If you let yourself be afraid of dying, you’re just gonna end up being afraid of living.” – Charlie, MacGyver
98. “A parent can only take so much responsibility.” – MacGyver
99. “Every action has a reaction… you’ve got to believe that.” – MacGyver
100. “That is what I always admired about you, how you never let go of something worthwhile.” – Natalie, MacGyver
101. “I used to have an open mind, but my brains kept falling out.”
102. “Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.”
103. “The universe is a figment of its own imagination.”
104. “Death is hereditary.”
105. “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”
106. “Everyone has photographic film, some don’t have film.”
107. “Friends may come and go, but enemies tend to accumulate.”
108. “Boycott shampoo!! Demand the real poo!”
109. “The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.”
110. “Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.”
111. “Wear short sleeves. Support our right to bare arms.”
112. “Hey, it could happen.”
113. “Say it ain’t so, Joe.”
114. “It was like coming this close to your dream and then watching it brush past you, like a stranger in the crowd. You know, we just don’t recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they happen.” – Doc Graham, Field of Dreams
115. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” – Joe DiMaggio
116. “The truth is out there.” – X Files
117. “Normal people come and go, but weird people never leave.”
118. “A sunset is like a river, ever changing as it flows.”
119. “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.”
120. “I’ll alert the media!”
121. “Somebody step on a duck?”
122. “Insanity runs in my family… it practically gallops.”
123. “To indeed be a god!” – Dead Poets’ Society
124. “Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile” – William Bryant
125. “Getting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me amputated. I heard tat old men wake up at night and scratch itchy legs that have been dust for over fifty years. That was me. I’d wake up at night with the smell of the ballpark in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet. The thrill of the grass……” – Shoeless Joe, Field of Dreams
126. “You can do anything you wanna do if you put your mind to it.”
127. “Y’know, MacGyver, that’s why you’re so hard to beat. Nobody knows what you’re going to do next, including you.” – Murdoc, MacGyver
128. “You’re gonna have to trust me on this.” – MacGyver
129. “Changing your name you can do; changing who you are, this you can never do.” – Sam, MacGyver
130. “Trust me. I