Quisenberry Quotes & Sayings

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. — Dan Quisenberry

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can. — Dan Quisenberry

We can choose not to think about our power and its meaning for ourselves or for others, but we cannot make that power disappear and we cannot prevent decisions taken in the United States from rippling out beyond our borders and shaping the world that others live in and the choices that they make. Nor can we prevent the way that others see and react to our power from shaping the world we live in and affecting the safety and security of Americans at home. — Walter Russell Mead

I wish someone could tell me it is ok to trust someone and getting betrayed.
I wish some one could reassure the faith that I have on love. — Anonymous

They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses. — Dan Quisenberry

Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy. — Patricia Highsmith

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss. — Dan Quisenberry

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home. — Dan Quisenberry

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw. — Dan Quisenberry

It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made. — Dan Quisenberry

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy. — Dan Quisenberry

I've been looking for you my whole damn life. — Colleen Hoover

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard. — Dan Quisenberry

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough. — Dan Quisenberry

I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P. — Dan Quisenberry

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts. — Dan Quisenberry

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time. — Dee Dee Myers

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. — George Polya

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles. — Dan Quisenberry

Connecting the dots. That's what Mom said stargazing is all about. It's the same up there as it is down here, Jackie. You have to look for the things that connect us all. Find the ways our paths cross, our lives intersect, and our hearts collide. — Clare Vanderpool

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it. — Dan Quisenberry

The afternoons were getting longer again, stretching. I stayed too long at a stoplight because the sunlight was so pretty, sifting through all the leaves on the sycamore trees lining Sierra Bonita, turning each a pale jade green. The jacaranda trees preparing for their burst of true lavender blue come May.
Go, said Dad.
Sorry, I said. — Aimee Bender

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. — Dan Quisenberry

When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry. — Dan Quisenberry

I don't like the way my hair looks, so we're going to do the whole show over. — Greg Gutfeld

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself. — Dan Quisenberry

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact. — Dan Quisenberry

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers. — Dan Quisenberry

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer. — Dan Quisenberry

It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over. — Alice Hegan Rice

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework. — Dan Quisenberry

The future is much like the present, only longer. — Dan Quisenberry

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain. — Dan Quisenberry

Every challenge, I have faced, dares me to seek a higher power. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Consistently turning up for meetings late, is a statement saying you have no respect for the person you are meeting or for the purpose of the meeting, or both. You are sending a clear message that this person or the reason for your meeting is not important to you. — Archibald Marwizi

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace. — Brother Lawrence

It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.' — Dan Quisenberry