Ruben Amaro Jr quote: "Tom Gordon hasn't been in [the closer] role because he pitched in front of Mariano Rivera for the past two seasons [in New York]. He solidified that bullpen for them. He's pitched in pressure situations before and can close again. I see at least 40 saves."

Dreams Are Made By The Person Who Makes Them Happen
MIKEY AMARO

I'm happy I get to go to state. I really want to medal and make it to senior nationals.
JOSH AMARO

He's real tough. He's always in good position and he's a good kid.
JOSH AMARO

I'm going to have to work hard this week.
JOSH AMARO

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.
RUBEN BLADES

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
RUBEN CARDENAS

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.
RUBEN ASKEW

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know t...
RUBEN STUDDARD

I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the m...
RUBEN BLADES

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.
RUBEN STUDDARD

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact re...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it pas...
RUBEN STUDDARD

I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.
RUBEN STUDDARD

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. ...
RUBEN STUDDARD

You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry...
RUBEN STUDDARD

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especi...
RUBEN STUDDARD

So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.
RUBEN STUDDARD

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.
RUBEN STUDDARD

Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally diff...
RUBEN STUDDARD

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.
RUBEN STUDDARD

I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.
RUBEN STUDDARD

I think I look good. I think I look real good.
RUBEN STUDDARD

I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through.
RUBEN STUDDARD

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise m...
RUBEN STUDDARD

I don't have any concerns about my weight. I've always been healthy. I eat right. I'm ju...
RUBEN STUDDARD

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud o...
RUBEN STUDDARD

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.
RUBEN STUDDARD

The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now....
RUBEN STUDDARD

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career...
RUBEN STUDDARD

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape you...
RUBEN STUDDARD

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.
RUBEN STUDDARD

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not th...
RUBEN STUDDARD

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
RUBEN STUDDARD

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up...
RUBEN STUDDARD

I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me.
RUBEN STUDDARD

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet th...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe t...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates an...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmoun...
RUBEN STUDDARD

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a g...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
RUBEN HINOJOSA

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their ...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
RUBEN BLADES

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unempl...
RUBEN BLADES

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support s...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.
RUBEN STUDDARD

People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.
RUBEN STUDDARD

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shak...
RUBEN STUDDARD

We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize OUR vision of happiness - ...
RUBEN PAPIAN

Intuition is a perfectly natural process, not only for you, but also for something as small as a bug...
RUBEN PAPIAN

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
RUBEN BLADES

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take th...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

The conditions are becoming increasingly adverse. It is grave, and being realistic, we think the sit...
RUBEN ESCUDERO

If we keep playing like we played tonight, we might mess up and get put out in the first round. It's...
RUBEN PATTERSON

Humans are very weird creatures. Perhaps stupidity is the smartest thing they are capable of conjuri...
RUBEN PAPIAN

Your whole strength is inside you. Whatever you wish, whatever you want, it’s in you head. I am ju...
RUBEN PAPIAN

The sole fact of survival is enough for the entire system to start treasuring every minute of life.
RUBEN PAPIAN

That was a blooper down the line and I was playing him in the gap, ... You would never expect him to...
RUBEN SIERRA

A human has to be that smart, to know how stupid he needs to be.
RUBEN PAPIAN

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very...
RUBEN BLADES

Correct emotional state is a stimulative factor to everything. If you chose love, go ahead; just lea...
RUBEN PAPAIN

A lie is not necessarily a fraud. Lie doesn’t even exist. There is however hope, faith, fantasy…
RUBEN PAPIAN

You are driving a car and it will maybe eventually start going in the wrong direction. But it is you...
RUBEN PAPIAN

Try to record your own silence. Listen to it when you are alone, but be careful! You could go insane...
RUBEN PAPIAN

We're accepting no more changes. Our problem is, we can't get to a baseline.
RUBEN COLLAZO

If he was away getting something he needed or having a meal, he wouldn't be under the rubble, but we...
RUBEN ESCUDERO

Doubt exists in every step you make. It allows you to foresee the dangers ahead.
RUBEN PAPIAN

Money and finances are completely artificial categories - in natural conditions, they don't exist. M...
RUBEN PAPIAN

The real picture of you is just a code for reality...
RUBEN PAPIAN

The future is a precise plan and you are just following the signals towards it.
RUBEN PAPIAN

Emotional threads are woven like a spider web, gentry, fast and everywhere...After a while they turn...
RUBEN PAPIAN

I think I can be ready to pinch-hit or go in the game. But if not, I'm going to let them know that I...
RUBEN SIERRA

Rarely are people redu to look at love itself and see it for what it really is –a dynamic changeab...
RUBEN PAPIAN

Believe in yourself! Do not let doubt, fear, panic, hysteria or even extreme faith to get in your wa...
RUBEN PAPIAN

You cannot control your brain activities. It works all the time and it is completely automated proce...
RUBEN PAPIAN

comes closest to what Mexico wants.
RUBEN AGUILAR

We hope that in coming weeks and months, relations cool off so that we can re-establish them to thei...
RUBEN AGUILAR

Turn the page. There are many more important things to look at.
RUBEN AGUILAR

In the frontal war against organized crime, the Mexican state will be victorious, but there will sti...
RUBEN AGUILAR

We are keeping an eye on the situation in El Salvador.
RUBEN AGUILAR

The government is not scared by this pressure from organized crime and we will have to continue figh...
RUBEN AGUILAR

The initial information indicates that organized crime was involved in the killings of these two pub...
RUBEN AGUILAR

The studies indicate that it could take several weeks and perhaps even months to get into the area w...
RUBEN AGUILAR

A migratory reform that only addresses security will not resolve the bilateral immigration problem. ...
RUBEN AGUILAR

We can not endorse a working document, a draft that has not been discussed nor had a final edit.
RUBEN AGUILAR

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement securi...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trill...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

The future does not look at the past, it always looks at the future.
RUBEN PAPIAN

Faith is always reshaping according to your conscious understanding.
RUBEN PAPIAN

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked i...
RUBEN BLADES

Humanity is still on the level where everyone’s “I” can be purchased with colored paper. It’...
RUBEN PAPIAN

Everything is a consequence of something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist - we only think i...
RUBEN PAPIAN

... And hope says: "Come on, it's alright, just keep going." Hope encourages the strides to your goa...
RUBEN PAPIAN

My grandson gets zero tolerance (in school), and addicts get a second chance. I understand they do t...
RUBEN HOPE

Garbage can smell pleasantly - beauty can stink. Everything is far more different if you have the fl...
RUBEN PAPIAN

Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the p...
RUBEN BLADES

The data indicates that the virus is being transmitted efficiently from dog to dog, and this indicat...
RUBEN DONIS

The data indicate the virus is being transmitted efficiently from dog to dog. It is now well establi...
RUBEN DONIS

Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the ra...
RUBEN BLADES

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recogni...
RUBEN BLADES

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.
RUBEN BLADES

I see the guys playing a lot harder when they see me and Reggie out there banging down on the floor,...
RUBEN PATTERSON

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe...
RUBEN BLADES

This is just an act of solidarity between two peoples who are brothers.
RUBEN AGUILAR

We implore you to understand this effort.
RUBEN ESCUDERO

That's why he got all those millions -- he just has to be consistent. That's what big-time players d...
RUBEN PATTERSON

People have gone over the area [before] but not as intensely as this time.
RUBEN TRAPENBERG

He was the best player at 20 last year and the stats proves it. He was not elevated to the varsity t...
RUBEN RODRIGUEZ

I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher th...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON

I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fi...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON

I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON

You know, I'm a father. I'm a brother. I'm a son. And I'm a grandfather. So many tim...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON

I've never considered being a cop. I could be a teacher, I could be a minister, a social worker ...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON

One was a regular virus like we have seen in poultry in Turkey before -- no surprises there.
DR. RUBEN DONIS

We think he was probably doing that just to see if they would be receptive to that kind of behavior....
LT. RUBEN DIAZ

I think she was just a victim of convenience. She worked with the football team as well. She was alw...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ

It's easy to say that, but what happens if we start doing that continuously and then, all of a sudde...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ

When we did the rape kit, there was physical evidence discovered that leads us to believe that she i...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ

He told her that if she screamed or if she told anybody what he was doing, he was going to come back...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ

Thanks to the AFI, who saved my life. I'm happy to be alive.
RUBEN OMAR ROMANO

The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.
JR

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecti...
JR

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n...
JR

With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it ...
JR

For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an...
JR

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't s...
JR

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people t...
JR

When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' I...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world.
JR

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
JR

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house...
JR

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present ...
JR

The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become...
JR

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
JR

With humour, there is life.
JR

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I h...
JR

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an...
JR

If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.
JR

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people...
JR

What we see changes who we are.
JR

I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR

I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Phil...
JR

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to inv...
JR

The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it'...
JR

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR

There were miracles long before Christianity.
JR

There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
JR

Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
JR

At the base of the eyelash is an invisible mite. Ask not what your mite can do for you but what you ...
JR

A bully is a coward turned inside out.
JR

We plan to continue to grow, so in the long run these are probably delays more than cancellations.
ALAN JR

I can't control what OPEC charges, but we can control our costs. It's going to probably delay some t...
ALAN JR

Where we can do better is where they (UPS) do extremely well, with the small and medium customer.
ALAN JR

Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first-quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN JR

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one pl...
JR. MURCHISON

This year's race showed that money, and lots of money, really matters. It was an unprecedented pheno...
ADOLFO JR

But I think competition is good. I am very competitive, if no one has noticed. And I think that if w...
ADOLFO JR

I don't even like to talk about this business about an ethnic and racial balancing act. I think it's...
ADOLFO JR

I would like to serve as mayor of this wonderful city. I think it's far too early to begin talking s...
ADOLFO JR

While we view the acquisition favorably, we are maintaining our market perform investment rating at ...
ALEXANDER JR

We believe Eaton Vance has a well-defined niche and reputation for tax-efficient investing, combined...
ALEXANDER JR

While I would like to see the company start generating profits sooner, I think (flat-rate pricing) i...
ALEXANDER JR

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.
ALEXANDER JR

Everybody works just a little bit harder. They drive their employees very hard.
ALEXANDER JR

That's a good price for a well-known house like Pilgrim. You could really get that company going aga...
ALEXANDER JR

Poor performance hasn't tarnished the funds' image. It's still the right acquisition for the right b...
ALEXANDER JR

Putting to bed this whole question of Pilgrim's independence, and finally getting that noise behind ...
ALEXANDER JR

It's an attempt to protect the little guy from himself. H&R Block is helping people become first-tim...
ALEXANDER JR

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to ...
JR. KREBS

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.
JR. TEAGUE

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one ...
JR. MURCHISON

It will be good, ... I've got a chance to ride a good filly (Indian Vale) and be able to encourage p...
ANGEL JR.

If Indian Vale is as good as we think she is and she runs her race, she'll make me look good, ... If...
ANGEL JR.

No, that's good enough for me.
ANGEL JR.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better,
ANGEL JR.

I love this horse, and I really love him in the Travers. He's fit and sound and eager. He's like a f...
ANGEL JR.

She was struggling to stay there, ... She was aggressive for the first quarter of a mile. She's a be...
ANGEL JR.

It would have been better if I had won, ... But it's nice to know that people still love the horses ...
ANGEL JR.

He's a very nice horse, very well behaved, ... I'm proud to get on a horse like that. He's probably ...
ANGEL JR.

When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali,
ANGEL JR.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
ANGEL JR.

He's in a lot of pain, but he's more comfortable then he was last night.
ANGEL JR

It's beautiful here. I am very impressed. It's like a dream. I've never seen stuff like this before....
ANGEL JR

I'm not trying to prove a point. I'm not trying to prove anything. I just want to get it out of my s...
ANGEL JR

She was struggling to stay there. She was aggressive for the first quarter of a mile. She's a better...
ANGEL JR

It will be good. I've got a chance to ride a good filly (Indian Vale) and be able to encourage peopl...
ANGEL JR

He's been the most dominant rider the last 15 years, and one of the most accomplished riders ever. H...
ANGEL JR

It would have been better if I had won. But it's nice to know that people still love the horses and ...
ANGEL JR

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better. When he won the Jim Dandy, he was do...
ANGEL JR

If Indian Vale is as good as we think she is and she runs her race, she'll make me look good. If I m...
ANGEL JR

He's a very nice horse, very well behaved. I'm proud to get on a horse like that. He's probably one ...
ANGEL JR

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
ARTHUR JR.

Tom Gordon hasn't been in [the closer] role because he pitched in front of Mariano Rivera for the past two seasons [in New York]. He solidified that bullpen for them. He's pitched in pressure situations before and can close again. I see at least 40 saves.

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Ruben Amaro Jr

Tom Gordon hasn't been in [the closer] role because he pitched in front of Mariano Rivera for the past two seasons [in New York]. He solidified that bullpen for them. He's pitched in pressure situations before and can close again. I see at least 40 saves.

Ruben Amaro Jr

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