Connie Mack Quotes (38 Quotes)

No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.

Having spent a number of years in both the House and the Senate, I know how difficult these changes can be, ... People ought to look at the entire package, not pick one proposal and conclude whether it's good or bad for them.

I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them, and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. Training counts. You can't win any game unless you are ready to win.

When people escape the last tyrannical regime in the Western Hemisphere, they should not be greeted with water hoses and pepper spray. This is not the American way,

in the best interest of the young man.

You can't win them all.

Mathewson was the greatest pitcher who ever lived. He had knowledge, judgment, perfect control and form. It was wonderful to watch him pitch when he wasn't pitching against you.

received specific assurances from the president of the United States that force would not be used in the middle of the night. Clearly, that pledge was broken.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Any minute, any day, some players may break a long standing record. That's one of the fascinations about the game, the unexpected surprises.

Connie entered the game when it was a game for roughnecks. He saw it become respectable, he lived to be a symbol of its integrity, and he enjoyed every minute of it.

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

It is a fair plan. It shares the benefits.

He's an emerging threat, a gathering storm we have to pay attention to,

The Justice Department's daily threat to revoke Elian's legal permission to remain in this country is an outrageous tactic. It is a scheme to short-circuit a judicial process in which even the most heinous of criminals are given the right to appeal.

After all my years, there are two things I've never got used to - haggling with a player over his contract and telling a boy he's got to go back.

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

There is a phrase around here that probably a few years ago didn't use very often. But it's called 'compartmentalization' and I would suggest that the person down in the White House is not the only one who has the ability to do that.

The question is whether this government should use force to remove a 6-year-old boy from a family home in America. That's the question. And I think it is outrageous. I think it is horrifying to tell you the truth, that we would use excessive force like that,

The majority of the benefit from the present treatment of mortgage-interest deduction goes to the very high income.

Clearly, under present law, the higher income folks benefit the most from those two aspects of the tax code.

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

After letting these families fight for several years to seek justice and after they succeeded in obtaining judgments from the courts, the administration has blocked them at every turn.

those people that oppose freedom and dislike the United States.

The pain of their losses has been compounded by the betrayal of their own government,

This storm wasn't what we thought it was.

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

There were very, very strong differences of opinion of the status of the negotiations that were taking place,

We have focused on big picture ideas that would improve the tax system for a large number of Americans.

Both plans restructure tax benefits ... and make these benefits fairer by ensuring they are available to all taxpayers - not just the 35 percent who itemize.

Congress is behind the president, ... There are very few people who are in favor of simply pulling out.

It's a simple, fair, pro-growth plan.

A number of years later the new hospital was built and the name was changed to the Milford Memorial Hospital. The original plaque inscribed ... now hangs in the emergency room.

his ongoing, radical shift toward socialism and the elimination of freedom for the Venezuelan people.

Today, less than 30 percent of American taxpayers take advantage of the mortgage interest deduction. Under our proposal, everyone who has a mortgage will get a benefit.

We're getting focused on the income tax as a base.

These are not armed criminals, and that's the way they were treated, ... And I find that terrifying that that would take place in the United States of America.