Ernie Harwell Quotes

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.

Stability means respecting precedents.

The times demand not a man bearing promises of new things, but a man who can finish the things begun...

Football is football. I've been playing the same game for 25 years.

In my long career I have experienced a lot, but never changed.

I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

I'm a simple man; I like to stick to what I know.

Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

President Trump - God forbid - the country will be okay, I promise. I don't know exactly what the country will look like, but we will survive it.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

We need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

[ Billy Graham ] is a hero to us all. His life of integrity. Somebody that can stick with it for that long and just stick with his message. What I love about Dr. Graham is he stayed on course. He didn't get sidetracked.