Dan Quisenberry Quotes

• Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

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  Littles, Bugs, Wonderful

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• I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

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  Time, Future, Forecasting

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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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  Gun, Fire, Relief

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• The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

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  Baseball, Homework, Best Things

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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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  Losing, Pitcher, Fastballs

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• I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

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  Flaws, Found, Pitcher

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• It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

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  Sports, Jobs, Character

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• Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

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  Games, Enemy, Hazards

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• It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

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  Stupid, Relief, Helping

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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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  Jobs, Loss, Poet

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• The future is much like the present, only longer.

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  Inspirational, Sports, Motivational Sports

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• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

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  Way, Loser, Los Angeles

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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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  Baseball, Home, Player

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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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  Jobs, Real, Mean

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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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  Baseball, Player, Sound

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• Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

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  Real, Pregnancy, Week

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• It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

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  Movie, Years, Lasts

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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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  Stars, Team, Angel

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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.

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  League, Stronger, Amphetamines

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