Bobby Quotes

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. (Dan Quayle)
I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby. View quote
Charles Evers
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. View quote
David Talbot
Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their nose. We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes. We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen. Now I wished you would have told me, I wished I could have talked to you. Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive. View quote
Boris Spassky
What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world. View quote
Barack Obama
She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle. View quote
Brian Selznick
I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet. View quote
Bobby McFerrin
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. View quote
Alan Lomax
My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy. View quote
Bob Gunton
I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers. (Bobby Vinton)
They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time. View quote
Bobby Vinton
It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs. View quote
Barry McGuire
Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it. View quote
Donald Dunn
When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser. View quote
Emerson Fittipaldi
Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person. View quote
Etta James
The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did. View quote
Harold H. Greene
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music. View quote
Johnny Ramistella
I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.' View quote
Josh Young
I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way. View quote
Michael Symon
Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis. (Mike Judge)
I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role. View quote
Steve Kanaly
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much. View quote
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other. View quote
Tim Ryan
Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life. View quote
Tom Glavine