Carolina Quotes
I am a husband called Rice. I am a father called Dad. I am a brother called Ed. I am an uncle called Uncle Ed. I am a grandfather called Papa. I am a friend that doesn’t call, some of my friends know that, and sometimes best not called at all. Finally, and I do mean finally, I am Jim Rice called a baseball Hall of Famer.
Jim Rice Carolinian
Source
National Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech, Cooperstown, New York, July 26, 2009
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- speech
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- National Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech
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- 2009
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I was a quiet leader, not a follower. I played through the pain and I suffered. No regrets.
You find your life-long partner, that one true love. You have your first child and you spend hours wondering at the perfection of tiny little fingers and toes. You rejoice and cry through pre-elementary, middle and high school and, if you’re lucky, college graduation. You marvel at how sanity endures. Right when you thought it couldn’t get any better, you have grandchildren and a new astonishing love blossoms.
What could have been worse? I had to leave everything that I knew, my future wife, my friends, my coaches, my everything. I showed up at Hanna to get my schedule and it was like a walk in the park. I was received with open arms, and so were my fellow Westside High transplants.