Dan Quisenberry Quotes
Dan Quisenberry's snippets feel plain-spoken and playful, drawing you into sports, progress and strategy.
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I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like the present.
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[My lifetime contract] has options through the year 2020, or until the last Rocky movie is made.
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A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter -- he fires until it's empty, then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
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Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinker-ball pitchers.
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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
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I found a delivery in my flaw.
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“I have seen the future and its like the present. Only longer.”
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.
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I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
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If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.
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When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.