Yastrzemski Baseball Quotes & Sayings

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability. — Carl Yastrzemski

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. — Bob Dole

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide. — Salman Rushdie

The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world. — David Platt

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time. — Carl Yastrzemski

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible. — Carl Yastrzemski

And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different. — Carl Yastrzemski

I'm not a teddy bear that girls can clutch. I'm sharp and hard, the thing that braces a girl to the bed, the one who grips her strongly and whispers with a husky, edged voice. I'm as rough on the outside as I am black on the inside. — Krista Ritchie

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course. — Steven Erikson

Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way. — David Gregory

When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start! — P.C. Cast

Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married. — Chuck Palahniuk

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul. — Bob Dylan

The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball — Martin F. Nolan

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it. — Carl Yastrzemski

Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble. — Nora Ephron

Never admit you're wrong when silence lies that you're right. — Faith Hunter

I don't want to be all power and muscle. — Shawn Johnson

When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its purpose, and Time itself shall come to an end. — David Mitchell

The media's job is not to inform you; it is to get eyeballs. Eyeballs lead to advertising revenue. That means they need people to read stuff and view stuff. Telling everyone things are going to work out just fine doesn't get eyeballs the way feeding into fear does. That doesn't just explain financial news; it explains most of the news. — Peter Mallouk