Hitless Wonder Quotes & Sayings

Life has its ups and downs ... Ride the downs and climb the ups! — Vaughn Ripley

It's Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It's Derek Lowe taking the mound the very next night to complete the most improbable comeback in baseball history - and then seven days later clinching the World Series. It's Pedro Martinez and his six hitless innings of postseason relief against the Indians. Yes, it is also Cy Young and Roger Clemens, and the 192 wins in a Red Sox uniform that they share - the perfect game for Young, the 20 strikeout games for Clemens - but it is also Bill Dinneen clinching the 1903 World Series with a busted, bloody hand, and Jose Santiago shutting down Minnesota with two games left in the season to keep the 1967 Impossible Dream alive, and Jim Lonborg clinching the Impossible Dream the very next day, and Jim Lonborg again, tossing a one-hitter and a three-hitter in the 1967 World Series, and Luis Tiant in the 1975 postseason, shutting out Oakland and Cincinnati in back-to-back starts. They are all winners. — Tucker Elliot

This is the best biography by me I have ever read. — Lawrence Welk

Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real. — Rosalind E. Krauss

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition! Finally, — Herman Melville

Why shouldn't we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word "obscenity." If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick. — Billy Graham

Happiness is a beautiful feeling. It is a beautiful mind, and a peaceful mind — Gyalwa Dokhampa

I don't have a lot of time for men in my life right now. Maybe I will when I'm older. Like 61.
"Scared Hitless — Carolyn Anderson-Jones

The authority that God has given you over Satan is ample, wide-ranging, thorough, all embracing — Pedro Okoro

People say that the real character of a person becomes clearer in times of diversity rather than in times when things are going well. — Ethan Sandlow

But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American. It is likely that I have not, and will not, put into them one truth, measuring by the ordinary standards of truth. It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That's what I'm after. — Sherwood Anderson

I'm a lot older. I'm wiser. I know what to do now, and hopefully, I don't
get in (anybody's) way. — Jorge Posada

It is much easier to pray for a bore than to go visit him. — C.S. Lewis