--- title: "Dan Quisenberry Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Dan Quisenberry's snippets feel plain-spoken and playful, drawing you into sports, progress and strategy. Read all 18 quotes by Dan Quisenberry on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## Dan Quisenberry quotes 1. > I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like the present. [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Dan-Quisenberry/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 2. > \[My lifetime contract\] has options through the year 2020, or until the last Rocky movie is made. [Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Dan-Quisenberry/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 3. > 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. [Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Dan-Quisenberry/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 4. > Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinker-ball pitchers. [Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Dan-Quisenberry/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") 5. > Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can. [Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Dan-Quisenberry/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 6. > I found a delivery in my flaw. [Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Dan-Quisenberry/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") ## Also attributed 1. > “I have seen the future and its like the present. Only longer.” 2. > The future is much like the present, only longer. 3. > Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home. 4. > He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact. 5. > 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. 6. > The best thing about baseball is there's no homework. 7. > 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. 8. > Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it. 9. > If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. 10. > They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses. 11. > Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself. 12. > 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. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CollectionPage", "name": "Dan Quisenberry Quotes", "url": "https://quotesby.net/Dan-Quisenberry", "about": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Quisenberry" }, "hasPart": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like the present.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Quisenberry" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[My lifetime contract] has options through the year 2020, or until the last Rocky movie is made.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Quisenberry" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Quisenberry" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinker-ball pitchers.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Quisenberry" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Quisenberry" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I found a delivery in my flaw.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Quisenberry" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I have seen the future and its like the present. 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