The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.
Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.
It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.