80 Clutch Quotes
Following is our list of clutch quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about .
Famous Clutch Quotes
A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one. — Miller Huggins
With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands. — Eli Manning
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. — Casey Stengel
You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over. — Mike Trout
Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer — Sarah Kay
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. — Sun Tzu
Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life. — Steve Jobs
I feel like nobody can stop me off the dribble. At crunch time, we're looking for somebody to score and I definitely want to be the guy who has the ball in his hands. — Rajon Rondo
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. — Chris Evert
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. — Chris Evert Lloyd
The key to winning is poise under stress. — Paul Brown
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. — Alistair Begg
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. — Mike Krzyzewski
Take off your hat quickly but slowly take hold of your purse. — Danish Proverbs
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. — Johnny Bench
Short Clutch Quotes
- I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near! — Abigail Williams
- Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? — W. J. Wetherby
- Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! — John Steinbeck
- Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to. — Czeslaw Milosz
- Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley
- Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches. — Mata Amritanandamayi
- The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle. — Bob Varsha
- Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch. — Corrie Ten Boom
- How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them! — Margaret Mitchell
- Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air. — David D. Burns
Clutch Time Quotes
That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face. — Fay Wray
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip gloss in. — Drake
I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself. — Chris Sharma
Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players. — Tracy McGrady
When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit. — Jenny Han
Sweet April-time - O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I'm not going to get a hit every time in clutch situations, but over the course of the season I'll get a lot of clutch hits. I'm disappointed it's come to a time when they (Orioles fans) boo me. And then to turn around and have the nerve to cheer for you, that's the way baseball goes. — Albert Belle
In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. — Alfred Eisenstaedt
The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear. — C. S. Lewis
People Writing About Clutch
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Eli Manning |
56 | 267 |
 Casey Stengel |
136 | 1217 |
 Mike Trout |
14 | 143 |
 Sarah Kay |
69 | 747 |
 Sun Tzu |
454 | 6304 |
 Steve Jobs |
587 | 14159 |
More Clutch Quotes
I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other. — Virginia Satir
Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we still have life! — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner. — Keiichi Tsuchiya
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow. — Velupillai Prabhakaran
When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known. — Eugene V. Debs
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. — Helen Keller
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn. — Elijah Cummings
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched. — Henry David Thoreau
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring. — Michael Leunig
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. — C. S. Forester
So when the world knocks at your front door, clutch the knob and open on up, running forward into its widespread greeting arms with your hands before you, fingertips trembling though they may be. — Anis Mojgani
As for a signature accessory, I believe in something totally unique that I love and is very personal. It could be a fab pair of vintage earrings I picked up on my travels or a beautiful brightly colored hat or heels, or a fun clutch or handbag. Truthfully, though, the ultimate accessory is a big smile and positive energy! — Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
What?” I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them. — Karen Chance
The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours. — Ted Hughes
The best way to know how Virender Sehwag's mind works is to sit next to him in the players' balcony when India are batting. Every few minutes he will clutch his head and yell, 'Chauka gaya' or 'Chhakka gaya'. — Sourav Ganguly
People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness. — Gwendolyn Brooks
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it. — Sri Aurobindo
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions. — Alan Paton
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history. — Avital Ronell
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes. — Robert Lowell
Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world. — Mary E. DeMuth
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. — Charlie Chaplin
Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. — Henry David Thoreau
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books. — Richard Wright
I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a mall. I don't recall any doors clicking when I crossed the street. And I never had anyone clutching their handbag when I got on an elevator. I guess having two awesome parents who taught me to be a respectful young man paid dividends. — Allen West
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away. — Dorothy Parker
Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats. — David Tennant
The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand. — Federico Garcia Lorca
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! — Robert Browning
...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality it has succumbed to it. — Siegfried Kracauer
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much. — Robert Graves
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