Dan Quisenberry Quotes

#1. I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

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#2. It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

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#3. The future is much like the present, only longer.

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#4. Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

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#8. I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

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#9. Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

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#10. The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

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#11. Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

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

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#13. I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

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#14. 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.'

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

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#16. 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.

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#17. If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

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#20. Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

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#21. 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.

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

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#23. I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

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