Hitting is very important to me, so I'm not one that likes to sit and watch. I did that one year when I was a little kid because a coach didn't want to play me as much, and it still bothers me.
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BILL BUCHANAN My father told me it was not a job, that I wouldn't make a living at tennis, ... The toughest part w... HICHAM EL GUERROUJ I've never really worn this out much. I did do a favor for a friend once and wore it to his 5-year-o... ERIC KOHEN Missing Justin's senior year was something that was hard for me. I have coached Justin since he was ... BRUCE CUNNINGHAM I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary... PRIYANKA CHOPRA One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I could not sit in the audience and w... JOHN BARRYMORE The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one d... DARLENE LOVE You got to have dreams and obviously that [the Vezina Trophy] is one of them, ... I want to be the b... TOMAS VOKOUN I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take... DANIELA RUAH Definitely, I have a gift. 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BRENNAN MANNING Nowhere in the New Testament is the privileged position of turkeys, nobodies, and marginal people on... BRENNAN MANNING One thing we do know: We don’t comprehend the love of Jesus Christ. BRENNAN MANNING the real dichotomy in the Christian community today is not between conservatives and liberals or cre... BRENNAN MANNING If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by t... BRENNAN MANNING The spiritual future of ragamuffins consists not in disavowing that we are sinners but in accepting ... BRENNAN MANNING Yes, God saved us because He loved us. But He is God. He has infinite imagination. Couldn’t He hav... BRENNAN MANNING The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with. BRENNAN MANNING Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but ... BRENNAN MANNING The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotio... BRENNAN MANNING And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman... BRENNAN MANNING The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Je... BRENNAN MANNING When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour... BRENNAN MANNING For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and rec... BRENNAN MANNING We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, ou... BRENNAN MANNING The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. BRENNAN MANNING Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence fo... BRENNAN MANNING Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any c... BRENNAN MANNING When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour... BRENNAN MANNING Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. BRENNAN MANNING Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are ... BRENNAN MANNING Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. BRENNAN MANNING As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and ac... BRENNAN MANNING Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God... BRENNAN MANNING The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awak... BRENNAN MANNING While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true s... BRENNAN MANNING To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit with... BRENNAN MANNING Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes... BRENNAN MANNING When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdainin... BRENNAN MANNING The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba’... BRENNAN MANNING [The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dom... BRENNAN MANNING We're looking forward to another good season. BARBARA BRENNAN We've talked about it, BARBARA BRENNAN We had six, lost three, then gained three, and have six again. We have a nice group. Annmarie, Kathy... BARBARA BRENNAN He's always been a good shooter. Nobody knew about him and I'm sure these guys didn't. I knew they w... RICH BRENNAN I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization." There is a proverb... MARIE BRENNAN Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people sta... BRENNAN MANNING Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father. BRENNAN MANNING The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better ... BRENNAN MANNING We were excited to go to Nashville because it came down to Nashville or San Francisco and either pla... BRENNAN SCHMIDT That facility is in dire need of some cosmetic and functional upgrades. KEN BRENNAN My Aunt Ella and my mom have informed me that we are going to rebuild. And because they are the matr... BRAD BRENNAN We're trying to get the investigation wrapped up. Obviously, it's a horrible and tragic situation fo... DAVE BRENNAN