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Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

You can't get any pictures from way back there.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I think Phish will come back. I just think it's time for a breather.

'Never look back' is my philosophy.

I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back.

On a personal note I want to gain more confidence and give back in any way I can.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

I can't pay her back, but what I can do is make her as happy as she thought I would when we first got married.

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.