Mauer Quotes & Sayings

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed. — Patricia McCormick

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do. — Joe Mauer

I have a few goals that I kind of keep to myself. — Joe Mauer

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player. — Joe Mauer

When I learned the news about Harmon today, I felt like I lost a family member. He has treated me like one of his own. It's hard to put into words what Harmon has meant to me. He first welcomed me into the Twins family as an 18-year-old kid and has continued to influence my life in many ways. He is someone I will never forget and will always treasure the time we spent together. Harmon will be missed but never forgotten. — Joe Mauer

I always said I wanted to be the best at what I could do. I feel like I can improve. — Joe Mauer

I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out. — Joe Mauer

I don't even attempt to sing. — Joe Mauer

Nobody wants to hear me rap. — Joe Mauer

Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt. — Francis Quarles

I'm looking to get better, and anything that will help me accomplish that, I'm all ears. — Joe Mauer

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control. — Joe Mauer

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be. — Joe Mauer

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — Thomas Jefferson

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge. — Joe Mauer

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it. — Joe Mauer

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted. — Lao-Tzu

I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically. — Joe Mauer

I've always been a man for details, can't get enough of them. Not a spy, not a bit of it, not really. An observer. Product of an unsentimental education. It's the least you can do - watch.
Watch it all tumbling down like the Wall - Berliner Mauer, the Antifacist Protection Rampart. Never a good sign when your wording tries that hard to fight reality, it suggests the beginning of your tumble. Yes, it does. It always does.
But I'd rather watch beauty.
And is that a denial of reality, or an attempt to embrace it? I think I am too tired to know. I hope I am too tired to know. — A. L. Kennedy

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system. — Michio Kaku

I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time. — Erica Brown

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it. — Simon Newcomb

Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see ... be your son. — Harmon Killebrew

I like Lil Wayne. — Joe Mauer

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible." -Albert Einstein — Diana Mauer

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over. — Doug Aitken

You know you'd rather read about me than experience me in person. Why pretend? — Jonathan Franzen

Proprieties of place, and especially of time, are the bugbears which terrify mankind from the contemplation of the magnificent. — Edgar Allan Poe

Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?"
"Kind of like a hobby?" she said, amused.
"Yeah I guess you could call it a hobby. Most normal people would call it friendship or love or something, but if you want to call it a hobby, that's OK too. — Haruki Murakami

Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but it will eventually go out of print, and eventually the last person ever to read it will die, and then the characters will no longer live in any consciousness.Also, that is okay. That is good, actually. That is how it should be. One of the things the characters in this novel have to grapple with is the reality of temporaryness. What Gus in particular must reconcile himself to is that being temporary does not mean being unimportant or meaningless. — John Green

There were no windows in my bedroom, so I had to sit up and read my clock to figure out how angry I should be at my visitor. Eight A.M. I hated whoever woke me up. Had they come an hour earlier, I would have also hated their families and any household pets. — Lish McBride