Baseball athlete Quotes

Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year.

They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

It was a good opportunity to show the Reds the guidelines on the catwalk.

Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!

I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!

The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or out on the water as well.

Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?

Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant.

I remember my rookie hazing. It wasnt fun.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues.

I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.

An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he can’t find anything worth doing.

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time.

I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in.

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.

I'm cancer-free right now. That's it.

Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

Baseball in Canada is like soccer in the U.

S. It is growing, and some people are starting to gain interest. The way that there are Americans playing high-level soccer, there are Canadians breaking into the Major Leagues.

When you lose velocity off of your fastball, one thing that suffers is your off-speed pitches - the action on your off-speed pitches. Once you lose arm speed, it takes away rotation from your off-speed pitches. The rotation is what gives them the sharpness and the nastiness.

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.

Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.

It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out.

The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.

It's always been family first for me.

No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural.

Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.

I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.

I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here.

It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

Fear does its best work in isolation.

Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.

The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.

I really can't complain about anything.

I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.

Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me

Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to win the pennant, everyone congratulating me. But a few minutes later, you realize you're not going where you want to go. I was trying to get back in the dugout. Thank God for the Boston police, they were able to control the crowd. It was delirium.

If you have a weakness, everyone sees it all over the country and the other team is going to exploit it.

I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season, .

.. If I can play every day, the numbers will come.