The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
That's why fame freaks me out in a lot of ways - because how genuine of a connection can you have when you're a commodity, and a conversation with you means bragging rights? That's terrifying to me.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you're a successful comedian or actor, then you're a famous one. But it's not the driving force. It's a by-product.
Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.
I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
