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I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.


Leo Durocher

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LEO BUSCAGLIA The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
LEO AIKMAN A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
LEO BAECK Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid...
LEO TOLSTOY Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest co...
LEO BUSCAGLIA What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA We all need each other.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
LEO BUSCAGLIA What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
LEO BUSCAGLIA We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f...
LEO BUSCAGLIA I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a...
LEO BUSCAGLIA If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind o...
LEO BURNETT I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good on...
LEO BURNETT Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
LEO BURNETT Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
LEO AIKMAN The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because i...
LEO STEIN If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business ...
LEO BURNETT Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in...
LEO TOLSTOY In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith pr...
LEO BOOTH Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest c...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mu...
LEO BURNETT I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love mea...
LEO BUSCAGLIA The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because ...
LEO STEIN