A Quote by Mark McGwire

I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.

Mark McGwire

Quote Topics

Away Baseball Biggest Chose Family Game Got Happy Reasons Retired Start Wanted

Quote Author

Mark McGwire
American - Athlete
Born: October 1, 1963

We chose to use a surrogate as the way we wanted to start our family, particularly as I was traveling across the globe on a stressful schedule to get stores open.

Dylan Lauren

The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!

Nelson Mandela

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

Irvine Welsh

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

Hillary Clinton

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

Graham Taylor

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Dave Winfield

I have always managed to combine my family life and my career, but there came a point when I had to choose between a career in America and my family. I chose my family.

Vera Lynn

I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?

ASAP Rocky

I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

Janet Jackson

I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Stephen Curry

Family means the most to me. To me, that's the life I chose, that's the life I wanted, that's the life I dreamed of. Of course, I want cars, jewelry, a nice house and all those type of things, but the key values to me, is growing and being in a partnership, a family.

Paul Wall

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

Angelina Jolie

I am fortunate that I come from a family that never distinguished between a boy and a girl. I had the freedom to chose my entire life and have been supported throughout by my family.

Smriti Mandhana

My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.

Kiera Cass

Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.