Nolan Ryan Quotes

I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

We must moderate both opulence and indigence by raising the wages of the poor, improving their habits, and lifting them above ignorance, plunder, and theft.

If you work, you should not be poor.

People working full time should not have to raise their children in poverty.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Higher wages for American workers are not just good for American families, they are good for our economy. I will keep fighting for a raise for hard working Americans so our families can afford housing, help their children get a quality education, and secure a good retirement.

My first summer at a repertory theater, I was making $20 a week. I was making a living, as far as I was concerned, and I was doing theater. And next season, I made $40 a week. But I don't think anyone in my family would have considered that making a living.

Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.