Jamie McCourt quote: "Tonight is really to introduce them to all the opportunities programmatically that we've got going. Whether it's clinics, whether it's breakfasts, whether it's opportunities in the Dodger program, networking with one another or sports in general -- understanding the rules, understanding what their children can do at the stadium. There are so many things we want to talk about."

There's potential for it being soon. The reality is that there are only 'X' positions available, so ...
JAMIE MCCOURT

Women have a wonderful opportunity to be a central part of baseball, and if I can help reach some of...
JAMIE MCCOURT

Baseball has always been ahead of the game in promoting diversity, and the Dodgers have always been ...
JAMIE MCCOURT

Vin Scully is synonymous with Dodger baseball and has been for generations of fans in Los Angeles an...
JAMIE MCCOURT

I loved, loved, loved baseball. I would drag my dad to Orioles games, and I would always keep score.
JAMIE MCCOURT

About a quarter of the skin of her eye had already been eaten away.
JAMIE MCCOURT

We talked about how we were thinking of making this move and what it could mean and Frank says, 'But...
JAMIE MCCOURT

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
MALACHY MCCOURT

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
MALACHY MCCOURT

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
MALACHY MCCOURT

Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
MALACHY MCCOURT

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave ou...
MALACHY MCCOURT

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to ...
FRANK MCCOURT

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
FRANK MCCOURT

I'm a late bloomer.
FRANK MCCOURT

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
FRANK MCCOURT

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
MALACHY MCCOURT

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. ...
FRANK MCCOURT

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
FRANK MCCOURT

Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly hav...
FRANK MCCOURT

My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.
FRANK MCCOURT

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice....
FRANK MCCOURT

O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So ...
FRANK MCCOURT

You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty....
FRANK MCCOURT

There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of ...
FRANK MCCOURT

Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assum...
FRANK MCCOURT

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting ste...
FRANK MCCOURT

I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer ...
FRANK MCCOURT

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the best...
FRANK MCCOURT

A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller ...
FRANK MCCOURT

It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' la...
FRANK MCCOURT

Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a ba...
FRANK MCCOURT

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't ...
FRANK MCCOURT

I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New Y...
FRANK MCCOURT

I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because...
FRANK MCCOURT

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
FRANK MCCOURT

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who he...
FRANK MCCOURT

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to...
FRANK MCCOURT

I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of m...
FRANK MCCOURT

I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd d...
FRANK MCCOURT

For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, t...
FRANK MCCOURT

If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a...
FRANK MCCOURT

[Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to...
FRANK MCCOURT

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictu...
FRANK MCCOURT

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came f...
FRANK MCCOURT

The uncluttered life is the key to a good memory.
FRANK MCCOURT

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the ...
FRANK MCCOURT

We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they tol...
FRANK MCCOURT

If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd St...
FRANK MCCOURT

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down...
FRANK MCCOURT

I hope the Catholics don't get a hold of him and make him a saint. That would make him most miserabl...
MALACHY MCCOURT

It would take far too long to get in and out of low-cut dresses.
MALACHY MCCOURT

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
FRANK MCCOURT

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everyth...
FRANK MCCOURT

I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,'...
FRANK MCCOURT

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is...
FRANK MCCOURT

We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a pr...
FRANK MCCOURT

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
FRANK MCCOURT

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
FRANK MCCOURT

I was tormented. Fear and trembling. And a sense of doom. A literal belief in hell. Hell for eternit...
FRANK MCCOURT

There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architectu...
FRANK MCCOURT

We decided to put in a park and picnic area. It will accommodate about 500 people for groups. We wan...
FRANK MCCOURT

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... I...
FRANK MCCOURT

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
FRANK MCCOURT

I've stated before that my number one priority as the steward of the Dodgers is winning, and I belie...
FRANK MCCOURT

The Dodgers are at a crossroads here. I'm very mindful of this historic franchise's tradition of gre...
FRANK MCCOURT

This guy's been affiliated with winners all his life, and consistent winners. The record, I think, s...
FRANK MCCOURT

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.
FRANK MCCOURT

He has a high level of integrity, he's honest, hard-working, energetic, trustworthy, loyal, takes re...
FRANK MCCOURT

Teenagers have two moods: Horny and Hungry.
FRANK MCCOURT

I think that the Army, being drafted, was my escape route. I was in the Army for two years, and then...
FRANK MCCOURT

I'm very mindful of this franchise's tradition of greatness.
FRANK MCCOURT

This is an iconic team in Dodger history. It's not just any other team.
FRANK MCCOURT

Viva Los Dodgers has become one of the most anticipated events of the year. We're thrilled to contin...
FRANK MCCOURT

Our high expectations were not met.
FRANK MCCOURT

I thought I'd go mad. At one point I thought I'd put a plastic bag over my head and jump into the Hu...
FRANK MCCOURT

What saved me was my accent, I think I was a bit of a novelty. Otherwise, I certainly didn't have th...
FRANK MCCOURT

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help i...
FRANK MCCOURT

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
FRANK MCCOURT

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
FRANK MCCOURT

I'm more inclined to go back now because Limerick has changed so much. One of the reasons it was suc...
FRANK MCCOURT

I'd just go into a room in my memory and just look around and start seeing things that I'd forgotten...
FRANK MCCOURT

I would just circle around certain incidents, like a vulture with carrion, until it yielded up some ...
FRANK MCCOURT

The original architects aimed for what was really a quintessential, mid-century, California type of ...
FRANK MCCOURT

I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mytho...
FRANK MCCOURT

Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to wr...
FRANK MCCOURT

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything li...
FRANK MCCOURT

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.
FRANK MCCOURT

I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk...
FRANK MCCOURT

A kind of cross between Helen Traubel and Martha Raye an uncanny amalgam of Joan Sutherland and Phyl...
JAMES MCCOURT

He has character, integrity, honesty, loyalty. ... He's trustworthy and accountable. He respects the...
FRANK MCCOURT

He has character, integrity, honesty, loyalty. ... He's trustworthy and accountable,
FRANK MCCOURT

The poverty and the influence of the church were very damaging. It damaged all of us emotionally. To...
FRANK MCCOURT

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
FRANK MCCOURT

When I first came to New York and saw Italian families and their displays of affection, I was taken ...
FRANK MCCOURT

Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various ...
FRANK MCCOURT

All those smells... and the kids, we were the great unwashed... nobody ever knew what a shower was.....
FRANK MCCOURT

That second floor was a wonderful adventure. It was cozy. But at the same time we had this feeling o...
MALACHY MCCOURT

[Still, it was satisfying to see them humbled.] They're like dirigibles, ... They look huge floating...
MALACHY MCCOURT

The undertaking here to restore this great ballpark -- the fourth oldest in all the Majors -- is rea...
FRANK MCCOURT

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the oppo...
FRANK MCCOURT

After a full belly all is poetry.
FRANK MCCOURT

Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know...
FRANK MCCOURT

But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diplom...
FRANK MCCOURT

Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere...
FRANK MCCOURT

Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I ...
FRANK MCCOURT

With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound...
FRANK MCCOURT

Clarke, define resplendent. I think it’s shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give ...
FRANK MCCOURT

Then he placed on my tongue the wafer, the body and blood of Jesus. At last, at last. It’s on my t...
FRANK MCCOURT

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
FRANK MCCOURT

There are boys here who have to mend their shoes whatever way they can. There are boys in this class...
FRANK MCCOURT

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.
FRANK MCCOURT

Women stand with their arms folded chatting. They don't sit because all they do is stay at home, tak...
FRANK MCCOURT

When she's not talking to him the house is heavy and cold and we know we're not supposed to talk to ...
FRANK MCCOURT

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind....
FRANK MCCOURT

If ever you're getting a dog, Francis, make sure it's a Buddhist. Good-natured dogs, the Buddhists. ...
FRANK MCCOURT

Come here till I comb your hair, said Grandma. Look at that mop, it won't lie down. You didn't get t...
FRANK MCCOURT

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.
FRANK MCCOURT

You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a...
FRANK MCCOURT

I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like,...
FRANK MCCOURT

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everyth...
FRANK MCCOURT

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.
FRANK MCCOURT

There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer a...
FRANK MCCOURT

A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
...
FRANK MCCOURT

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed?
He says, Frankie, what�...
FRANK MCCOURT

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable chil...
FRANK MCCOURT

Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you’ll never miss a mother’...
FRANK MCCOURT

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in ...
FRANK MCCOURT

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
FRANK MCCOURT

People want real-life stories.
FRANK MCCOURT

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandi...
FRANK MCCOURT

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.
FRANK MCCOURT

I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say,...
FRANK MCCOURT

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experi...
FRANK MCCOURT

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I...
FRANK MCCOURT

Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.
FRANK MCCOURT

It's not just Catholic versus Protestant any more. I read somewhere that in any construction site in...
FRANK MCCOURT

We were just slogging on from day to day and making the best of it. But with a light at the end of t...
FRANK MCCOURT

No one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don'...
FRANK MCCOURT

I didn't do that, did I?
MALACHY MCCOURT

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow...
FRANK MCCOURT

St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
FRANK MCCOURT

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o...
JAMIE OLIVER

I don't like myself without a beard.
JAMIE DORNAN

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can b...
JAMIE XX

I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and...
JAMIE SIVES

My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday...
JAMIE OLIVER

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perim...
JAMIE WYETH

Virtual currency, where it's called a bitcoin vs. a U.S. dollar, that's going to be stopped....
JAMIE DIMON

I think I've done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. Bu...
JAMIE DORNAN

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it w...
JAMIE WYETH

Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents a...
JAMIE DIMON

You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you'll never get any sleep with ...
JAMIE LUNER

British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has chang...
JAMIE BAMBER

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town tryi...
JAMIE BAMBER

I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my thr...
JAMIE DORNAN

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite...
JAMIE CULLUM

There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 1...
JAMIE DORNAN

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatev...
JAMIE FOXX

If you're blindly loyal to me, then you're just acting like a crony of mine. If you say you ...
JAMIE DIMON

When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats....
JAMIE DIMON

People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite...
JAMIE CULLUM

I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America...
JAMIE DIMON

My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas a...
JAMIE WYETH

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're r...
JAMIE BELL

I don't hate on the whole EDM thing happening in America because, although the music is not of m...
JAMIE XX

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you...
JAMIE OLIVER

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positi...
JAMIE FOXX

You’re sorry? I damn near drank myself to death, I could barely get out of bed, I shattered my pho...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

He continued to stare out the window. "I meant what I said before. You need to walk away, Pidge. God...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

I like the au naturel thing you have going on. Girls don't come over here like that."
"I was co...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head ...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes i...
JAMIE FORD

I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no ...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And ...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitle...
JAMIE PAOLINETTI

Imitation is at least 50 percent of the creative process
JAMIE BUCKINGHAM

Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, indus...
JAMIE DIMON

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not jus...
JAMIE JOHNSON

Remember that banks aren't markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn't care who you ar...
JAMIE DIMON

I was introduced to 7 Charming Sisters at an Emmy Award Show event. When they approached me to becom...
JAMIE BREWER

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the ...
JAMIE BAMBER

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engine...
JAMIE ZAWINSKI

The word 'racist' is a permanent stain against my name. It's worse than a criminal recor...
JAMIE VARDY

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.
JAMIE FOXX

My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers...
JAMIE CULLUM

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing i...
JAMIE OLIVER

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.
JAMIE REDKNAPP

The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back.
JAMIE REDKNAPP

The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.
JAMIE DIMON

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but n...
JAMIE RASER

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of tur...
JAMIE BELL

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX

I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, ...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to ar...
JAMIE FOXX

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I...
JAMIE FOXX

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.
JAMIE OLIVER

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people s...
JAMIE FOXX

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natal...
JAMIE BELL

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
JAMIE DIMON

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