The best Quotes by Harmon Killebrew

The best Quotes by Harmon Killebrew

Harmon Clayton Killebrew Jr. (June 29, 1936 - May 17, 2011), nicknamed "The Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was an American professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. He spent most of his 22-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Minnesota Twins.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

I do everything in a straightforward manner.

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."

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Fathers Father & Son

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You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.

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Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter and hell spends the summer.

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The people of Arizona, they've been very warm and welcoming.

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In Arizona we salt margaritas, not sidewalks.

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Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be president.

John McCain

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Happy Cinco de Mayo. If you don't know what that means, maybe you're a little out of touch – or maybe you're the governor of Arizona.

Craig Ferguson

Arizona Cinco de Mayo

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Arizona.

Idaho cut their parks department by 80 percent. And Idaho is basically one giant park.

Parks and Recreation

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Idaho - and that's pretty much the same thing.

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

Tim Walz - July 2024

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Terry Gilliam

Ted: "It's freezing out there. Where's your coat?"
Robin: "Ted, I'm Canadian. I don't need a coat. This kind of weather is nothing for me."
Marshall: "Yeah. This is like a spring day back in Minnesota."

Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother - Season 4 Episode 11

Canada Minnesota

Minnesota, I love you snow much!

Minnesota Forecast. Today: Sun. Tomorrow: Snow. Next Day: Tornado, probably.

Minnesota girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Most places would call it a crippling snowstorm. In Minnesota, we call it Tuesday.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

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Death Selflessness

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Tifanny in Silver Linings

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Breakup Selflessness

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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Smoking Funny Quotes

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

Ava Gardner

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Smoking Whiskey

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms, when his hands are empty.

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Children & Childhood Fathers Father & Daughter

When I was a little girl I remember thinking men were these beautiful creatures created to love an protect the women of this world. Turns out I was wrong. I just had an amazing father.

Cindy Cherie

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Fathers Father & Daughter

A boy's best friend is his father.

In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.

Diego Costa

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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Tommy Lasorda

Success Losing & Defeat

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

Tommy Lasorda

Los Angeles Dodgers

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

Ryne Sandberg

My style is I work hard at it. I feel like I'm prepared every day.

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You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.

Jose Altuve

That's what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There's not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.

Jose Altuve

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

Barry Bonds

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Barry Bonds

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

David Ortiz

Ambition Winning

I just want to play baseball.

David Ortiz

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Derek Jeter

Ambition Motivation

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

Derek Jeter

Failures & Mistakes Perfection

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

Mickey Rivers

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Mickey Rivers

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Satchel Paige

Praying Day of Repentance and Prayer

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

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Love Work Dancing

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