"And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough."
-Nolan Ryan
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"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.“
-Nolan Ryan
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"I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity."
-Nolan Ryan
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"I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career."
-Nolan Ryan
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"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent."
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"Baseball life is a tough life on the family."
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"And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity."
-Nolan Ryan
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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-Jonathan Sacks
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