Eckersley Quotes & Sayings

A good leader can't dwell on the choices he's made, Threetrees used to tell him, and a good leader can't help dwelling on 'em. — Joe Abercrombie

It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic but acceptance was the key to my sobriety ... If I didn't have acceptance at that time in my life I would not be standing here today. — Dennis Eckersley

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game. — Dennis Eckersley

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic. — Dennis Eckersley

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do. — Dennis Eckersley

Abashed, should assumed its place
in the list of what could
be accomplished, what couldn't. — Wendy Mnookin

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important. — Dennis Eckersley

Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."
Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left. — Milan Kundera

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game. — Dennis Eckersley

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway,

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.' — Kylie Jenner

I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still. — Dennis Eckersley

Time travel isn't a wonder; it's an abomination. — Cristin Terrill

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate. — Dennis Eckersley

Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding? — Jane Welsh Carlyle

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start. — Dennis Eckersley

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings. — Dennis Eckersley

The term in baseball nowadays is a "walk-off home run." It didn't exist until Kirk Gibson hit his famous pinch-hit home run off Dennis Eckersley in game one of the 1988 World Series and Eckersley referred to it as "a walk-off," meaning, quite simply, that when someone does what Gibson did to him in that game, there's nothing left to do except walk off the mound into the dugout and then into the clubhouse. — John Feinstein

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen. — Dennis Eckersley

Mistaking obsession for love is one of the greatest mistakes you'll every make — Karina Halle

In all the thrashing about that results from our dwindling gold reserves, it's about time that this country and other countries get some perspective on the situation. The day this country is out of the stuff, that day gold becomes what it's worth as a metal and no longer will have much significance as a monetary measurement. It isn't the gold we have that makes this nation rich. It's what we make, our knowhow, our productivity. So long as this country produces more and better, the world will continue to want what we make. — Malcolm Forbes

I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston. — Dennis Eckersley

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war? — Daniel Berrigan

Pitching ... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears. — Dennis Eckersley

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands. — Dennis Eckersley

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame. — Dennis Eckersley

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down. — Dennis Eckersley

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball. — Dennis Eckersley

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better. — Dennis Eckersley

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches. — Dennis Eckersley

I also think that I had great mechanics. — Dennis Eckersley

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches. — Dennis Eckersley

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there. — Dennis Eckersley

Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father. — Dennis Eckersley

YOU WEREN'T born choking on no silver spoon, you know how it goes when you go looking for a job and you need one: You wait in the first indifferent room, ink in the forms, apply in another room with linoleum that's waxy and squeaks and overhead lights that don't miss a thing; then there's the desk and the person behind it who thinks he's an admiral, or it's a she and she thinks she's now in line for the throne to somewhere, and next you're kissing ass and aw-shucksing toward the desk, telling how bad all your life you've been wanting to be night janitor in a chemical plant, or hog wrangler in a slaughterhouse, or pizza delivery boy, how you've laid awake in bed gettin' goose bumps just from imagining how high and wide your life might someday be lived if ever you could average five dollars and forty cents an hour. But — Daniel Woodrell

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team. — Dennis Eckersley

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Deepak Chopra

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it. — Dennis Eckersley

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting. — Nido R. Qubein