John Davis Quotes

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

I don't feel the need to be seen, to be glorified in any way.

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.

I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry. I'm not a glamorous person at all, not at all.

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.

I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

I'm the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would probably be a pioneer. I just love the simplicity of what it means to work hard with your hands - to eat and survive.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

The more simple, the more republican we are in our manners, the more rational dignity we shall acquire.

I am a woman of simple tastes.