Three Quotes

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

When I go on location, we have a schedule. And when you have a schedule, you know when you're not working, so I train very well on location. But I also train three or four times a week at home, but today I train differently than before.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

I did two or three plays every summer.

If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.