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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.


Frederick Wilcox

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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.
ANTHONY ROBBINS When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
WOODY ALLEN It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base.
STEPHEN RICHARDS When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
WOODY ALLEN The first batter of the game the other day got on base with a walk, and she tried to steal. Heather ...
AMY EVANS I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
TOM CLARK I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
THOMAS CAMPBELL CLARK I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile
THOMAS CAMPBELL CLARK I told him to get a first base glove, a second base, shortstop, third base and outfield gloves. The ...
JERRY NARRON I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. -TO...
TOM C. CLARK They?re so young and inexperienced. I?m starting freshmen at shortstop, second base and first base. ...
CINDY HAVENS Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE In doing voter registration, you always go to where your base is.
BILL PEASLEE You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
STEVIE WONDER You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.
KAREN KINGSBURY Focus on your objectives and base your decisions on a moral foundation.
TROY GATHERS He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then ...
CHARLIZE THERON You hit first or second, you know they're going to come at you because they don't want anybody on ba...
GARRETT ATKINS With a guy in front of you, it's that much easier. I can still lay it down and get him to second, or...
BRANDON WATSON He's always been good at getting on base, and he has a real good feel at the plate. He's really good...
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FEDERICA MOGHERINI I talked to a friend on second base and he said, 'He's eating us alive.
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KATIE BASE I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' a...
GRAEME BASE [Joining the Honors Program] is something you volunteer to do…it's just like joining a club…you do...
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KATIE BASE I think its good, but I don't think it's necessary.
KATIE BASE The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
CONFUCIUS With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He's really learning to steal bases. He's grown as a base runner. He creates a lot of opportunities ...
STEVE FINLEY "He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then...
CHARLIZE THERON Not only does [the university] contribute to the knowledge base and the cultural base, we make signi...
GARY LOFTUS I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool...
BARBARA BUSH You don't have to worry about slumps with him because he can always bunt to get on base.
MARC GUSTAFSON We haven't scored any runs. Deivi has played some shortstop, second and third base,
JIM BOWDEN You're a step and a half closer to first base.
BILL LOCKWOOD That's our game and that's my job, to create havoc. If the stolen base is there, I'll take it, but i...
CHONE FIGGINS When you have guys ahead of you who get on base, I don't care what spot you're hitting in, you want ...
JEFF CONINE You always have a choice - ALWAYS. If you base that choice with Awareness you will always make the r...
ANIL GUPTA you cant keep saying 'thank you' and expect to feature on the Forbes
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the ...
R.L. LAFEVERS You can't put a slug out there at first base and expect him to make plays.
JOHN KRUK Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “...
RACHEL CAINE Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.
MARIO GABELLI You going from being on your toes on every play at second base and then suddenly you are just out th...
BRANDON WATSON Spending is the first thing you hear about when you go out and talk to conservative-base folks.
ED FRANK The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You...
LOU BOUDREAU Technical knowledge, divorced from what it is supposed to be knowledge of, yields only the illusion ...
STANLEY FISH He saw me a lot when he came to the park, because I was always backing up first base, ... He makes y...
JOE GIRARDI I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'...
BRYCE HARPER If you get on base a lot, that's how you score.
DON SUTHERLAND It's two different parts of the game. I was doing the same thing when I was playing second base. Whe...
ALFONSO SORIANO It was just a freak occurrence. I was going into second base ... and the next thing I knew I was on ...
TRAVIS HANSON My whole thing is getting on base. My on-base percentage is the No. 1 thing. That equates to runs, ....
DAVE ROBERTS I really haven't found my rhythm out there. It's a matter of continuing to (get on base) and if I st...
SCOTT PODSEDNIK I think you base pay increases on substantially successful years.
MIKE HAMILTON When you get Jessica on base, she makes things happen.
LISA DEY A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing t...
JOE MORGAN If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.
KATE O'BRIEN (When we hired a search firm) folks automatically assumed that we were at first base, and that could...
MIKE THOMAS Both of them I stopped at second base because I thought they were doubles.
BROCK BIDLINGMAIER Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order excee...
MICHAEL J. GELB In campaigns, the goal is to be a stable leader, clear on your record, accomplishments and base,
CATHY ALLEN She bounced (off the ground). (And) she almost beat out the two ground balls to second base.
FRANK BONACCI As conservative value investors, we always base decisions on the question: 'what if we are wrong,'
BILL NYGREN We're installing the base mural, and once we do, we'll sell portrait tiles to replace the tile on th...
CATE ERVIN Mugabe has built his power base on the politics of patronage ... and all those things are part of th...
ELDRED MASUNUNGURE Miranda did a very good job. Emily had a lot of putouts in center field, Danielle Cavanaugh played g...
BILL BEASLEY Always keep one foot in the past, your head in the present, and your eyes to the future.
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SCOTT ADAMS Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. ...
RICKEY HENDERSON As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological ...
ZAHI HAWASS It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.
JERRY GREENFIELD I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.
NEVE CAMPBELL As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservat...
MATT ASAY When I look at it individually, I think it's a natural progression -- coaching first base for the la...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts y...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec...
FREDERICK BUECHNER A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
FREDERICK FARRAR Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he ...
FREDERICK BAILES The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thun...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra...
FREDERICK KEONIG The key to your universe is that you can choose.
CARL FREDERICK A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to an...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, ...
FREDERICK TENNYSON We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same que...
FREDERICK KEONIG I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ...
FREDERICK PERLS In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicio...
FREDERICK POLLOCK What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thi...
FREDERICK TENNYSON Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
FREDERICK SMITH The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
FREDERICK SMITH