Hornsby Quotes & Sayings

Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry. — Bruce Hornsby

I'm like a decathlete without the body. — David Hornsby

I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for. — Rogers Hornsby

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better. — Bruce Hornsby

That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it. — Bruce Hornsby

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth. — Russell Hornsby

Now the advantage is all with the hitters. — Rogers Hornsby

All the music I write is a search for myself. — Bruce Hornsby

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country. — Bruce Hornsby

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher. — Rogers Hornsby

The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often. — Rogers Hornsby

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby

Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest. — Rogers Hornsby

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning. — Bruce Hornsby

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character. — Russell Hornsby

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine. — Rogers Hornsby

Some things will never change. — Bruce Hornsby

I'm haunted. We all are, I guess. We're parentless, friendless, unloved, abandoned. The spirits of our deceased emotional anchors and proofs of existence will follow and demean us until we too roam a quiet lifeless world alongside them - unable to speak - our histories written in beach sand. — Jason S. Hornsby

No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo. — Bruce Hornsby

I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something? — David Hornsby

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher. — Rogers Hornsby

I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good. — Rogers Hornsby

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family. — Russell Hornsby

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared. — Walter Johnson

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself. — David Hornsby

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters. — Rogers Hornsby

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few. — Rogers Hornsby

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever ... — Kim Hornsby

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living. — Bruce Hornsby

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. — Rogers Hornsby

There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us. — Bruce Hornsby

The world is truly a terrible place. Every one of my generation is lost, filling the holes which are their lives with seditious and yet passionless acts of unnecessary drama. It is a world of hypocrisy and whispers, a dark mine shaft of overfed, spoiled, and thankless slaves too stupid to realize that, despite their steady stream of shallow luxuries, they are still slaves. — Jason S. Hornsby

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand? — Jason S. Hornsby

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. — Rogers Hornsby

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in. — Rogers Hornsby

She was still in the hotel bed of the AMTEX Hotel, the only place in town that catered to foreign visitors. The only refuge in a dangerous country besides the American Military's Kandahar Airbase just across the street. She looked around the room quickly and noted that she was alone and exactly where she'd been when she tried to jump into Jamey's dream. It fricking worked! She smiled. Finally, she'd entered Jamey's dream. And he'd jumped out with her. Thank God. — Kim Hornsby

I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now. — Bruce Hornsby

Tina tipped the open urn and watched the heavier pieces of ash fall directly below the cliff into the thorny kiawe bushes. Then the wind swirled, carrying the lightest ashes back towards her, covering her hair and face. — Kim Hornsby

(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases ... — Casey Stengel

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested. — Bruce Hornsby

The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit. — Rogers Hornsby

The only true dead are those who have been forgotten. — Jason S. Hornsby

I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy. — Russell Hornsby

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about. — Bruce Hornsby

I've never been a yes man. — Rogers Hornsby

Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing ... I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now. — Bruce Hornsby

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not. — Russell Hornsby

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should. — Bruce Hornsby

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music. — Bonnie Raitt

I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball. — Rogers Hornsby

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back. — Bruce Hornsby

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit. — Rogers Hornsby

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence. — Rogers Hornsby

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area. — Rogers Hornsby