Niekro Phil Quotes & Sayings

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him. — Nick Lowe

Henry looks from my face back to the field, and his eyes pop open wide. I turn to see why he's gaping: JJ and Carter are messing around, trying
to shove a scrawny wide receiver into Jerry Rice's stroller.
"JJ!" Henry yells, "You can't fit a freshman in that stroller. — Miranda Kenneally

Working consciously with the Divine Map of Transformation aligns you to the Earth and the Heavens, to your soul purpose and your personal individuation, to your inner growth and external manifestation. — Gia Combs-Ramirez

I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got. — Phil Niekro

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher. — Phil Niekro

I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball. — Phil Niekro

the existing market economy has no "stable" or "neutral" setting: there is only growth or contraction. — Richard Heinberg

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous. — Stacy Allison

Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry. — Bobby Murcer

My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly. — Dorothy L. Sayers

A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic. — Swami Vivekananda

If we love Jesus, we shall be loved in return by Him, and that is perfect happiness. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely. — Aristotle.

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another. — Bernard Drainville

My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball. — Phil Niekro

There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box. — Phil Niekro

I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning. — Phil Niekro

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend. — Bob Uecker

Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen. — Harry Chapin

There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own. — Phil Niekro

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car. — Ralph Kiner

The music I was writing for 'Hamlet' needed to be very simple because there was so much going on with the dialogue in that play, so I felt like the music had to complement that - so that carried on through; I was working on the soundtrack and the album simultaneously. — Sarah Blasko