Garciaparra Quotes & Sayings

It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play. — Nomar Garciaparra

Our schools should be the same - environments for safe experimentation, viewing failure as an opportunity for learning rather than a mark of shame. — Salman Khan

When people are out of their comfort zone, it's more dramatic, more prone to have more entertaining experiences, get into fights. That's the dramatic instinct, to move people out of what they know and make them deal with it. — Conor McPherson

You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems. — Nomar Garciaparra

A stream of primal voices
Whispering in the breeze of your heart
To urge you on. — Scott Hastie

People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter. — Nomar Garciaparra

No nation ever rises higher than its women ... — Nellie L. McClung

His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque just like his mother," said Ron irritably. "Is that normal, Hermione? — J.K. Rowling

Don't ever give up on your dream. Ever. — Tohoru Masamune

I love the game of baseball. — Nomar Garciaparra

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it. — Nomar Garciaparra

You can't hit without your hands. — Nomar Garciaparra

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them. — Nomar Garciaparra

The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion. — William Blake

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others. — Dalai Lama XIV

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people. — Cliff Richard

Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw

I thought I told you I didn't want to talk to you, Mr. Dresden."
"I like women who play hard to get. — Jim Butcher

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day. — Nomar Garciaparra

They tolerate my mistakes. They correct me, they encourage me, they provide the words I lack. They speak clearly, patiently. Just like parents with their children. The — Jhumpa Lahiri

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is. — Nomar Garciaparra

I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy. — Nomar Garciaparra

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes. — Nomar Garciaparra

He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything. — Joe Torre

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage. — Nomar Garciaparra

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on. — Isaiah Thomas

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. — Nomar Garciaparra

America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed. — Agnes Repplier

Love of Fenway itself may be as much a part of the Sox' 2.6 million annual attendance as Pedro (Martinez), Manny (Ramirez) and Nomar (Garciaparra) — Michael Gee

If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those fans, Ill always remember. But Im also going to another great place. Im going to a phenomenal city with great tradition as well, phenomenal fans, great organization. — Nomar Garciaparra

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game. — Nomar Garciaparra

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes. — Nomar Garciaparra