Uggla Quotes & Sayings

To Remember you so Vividly
To remember you so vividly, dancing there, with sweet champagne pulsing through your veins ... to know what it's like to feel another's presence pulsing through mine. And each time, looking forward to popping that enchanted cork with you and really disappearing from the world as we knew it - wondering if we would ever return. — Carew Papritz

A rumor is like a check
never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine. — Grenville Kleiser

It's a frightening thing to be truly honest with yourself. It means you have no one left to turn to anymore, no-one to blame, and to one to look to for salvation. You have to give up any possibility that there will ever be any refuge for you. You have to accept the reality that you are truly and finally on your own. The best thing you can hope for in life is to meet a teacher who will smash all of your dreams, dash all of your hopes, tear your teddy-bear beliefs out of your arms and fling them over a cliff. — Brad Warner

Love me for who I am, not what you want me to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble. — Dan Uggla

Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do. — Dan Uggla

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good. — Dan Uggla

It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines. — D.H. Lawrence

Freddie Freeman led all Braves' starters with a (.282) batting average in 2011. Not bad for a rookie. Then again, this is the kid who hit his first big league bomb against none other than Roy Halladay ... the same kid whose leather at first is so flashy than at times it's hard to decide which to be more excited about, his bat or his glove, the same kid who joined teammate Dan Uggla with concurrent 20-game hitting streaks in 2011 - a first in modern era Braves' history - and the same kid who won NL Rookie of the Month honors in July after hitting .362 with six homers, 17 runs, and 18 RBIs. — Tucker Elliot

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it. — Dan Uggla

Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well. — Dan Uggla

All the stuff about who's hitting behind you and who's hitting in front of you-it plays a little bit of a part. But you can't just base your approach off that because you'll end up getting beat in the end. — Dan Uggla

The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there. — Dan Uggla

Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse. — Narendra Modi