Quotes About Respect

Whether players are from Albania or Yugoslavia is not important. What's important is to be a team on the pitch.

I know what is important. When I go to the pitch, I cannot laugh; I respect the other players. I try my best and put my passion inside the game.

You can insult me - you can judge me on the football pitch - that's normal. But don't touch my family. Don't touch my parents. I love them more than everything on this earth.

We are footballers, so if you've got to play with someone, you've got to play with them. What happens off the pitch, well, you can't get on with everyone you work with.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

While American ballplayers from Mickey Mantle to David Ortiz have flipped their bats, the act is still perceived as a great offense here - an insult to the pitcher, the opposing team and all that's sacred in America's pastime.

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

What I loved about the 1950s is that there is an aesthetic to even the average film. The way the camera is placed, the way characters move, the way you dressed the sets, the respect for craft and actors, I do miss that in today's films.

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.

In my line of work I have respect, that's it. Plain and simple. And I follow orders. I do my job on the park and I do my job off the park.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

My dad is the most humble man on the planet.

Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

I believe that my work extending health care to women through Planned Parenthood is something that most people will respect and do respect.

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.