Francoeur Quotes & Sayings

Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied. — Nick Cave

If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard? — Jeff Francoeur

It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox. — Jeff Francoeur

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager. — Mikaela Shiffrin

Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control. — Chris Hodges

Certainly it is not to invent explanations which dismiss the chief political and historical fact of the matter: that the forgery is being believed. This fact is more important than the (historically speaking, secondary) circumstance that it is forgery. — Hannah Arendt

One day, you're 11 games, 12 games out, and the next day you're in first! — Jeff Francoeur

I think the thing I'm most excited about is the fact that I was able to, for the most part, change pitchers' mindsets about what kind of hitter I am. — Jeff Francoeur

I think if everyone is clean, then who cares about how you're tested? — Jeff Francoeur

I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard. — Jeff Francoeur

In the Renaissance world of arranged marriages, there were no romantic proposals on bended knee - only notaries and contracts. — Elizabeth Lev

Edward: It wasn't the worst night of my life.
Jake: Did it make the top ten?
Edward: Possibly. But, if I had been able to take your place last night, it would not have made the top ten of the best nights of my life. Dream about that. — Stephenie Meyer

When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team. — Jeff Francoeur

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy. — Patrick Dempsey

There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there. — Colin Hanks

Suddenly, [Cecilia Washburn] was getting a lot of attention from her friends," Pabst explained to the jury. "Attention from the dean of the pharmacy school ... .Attention by Dean Charles Couture, the then dean of students; by the Crime Victim Advocate office; by the nurse, [Claire] Francoeur ... .Miss Washburn got attention by the investigator and by the prosecutor. Her regret was replaced by sympathy, attention, and support, and a little bit of drama, and a little bit of celebrity ... .Her regret, fueled by drama, became purpose. She received a new public - and important - identity: victim. — Jon Krakauer

Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might. — Johan Huizinga

A lot of people just thought I'd be a .260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and let me learn the game a little bit.' — Jeff Francoeur

We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers. — Lou Gramm