Blyleven Bert Quotes

#1. Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

Bert Blyleven

#2. The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

Bert Blyleven

#3. It is often easier to fight for one's principles than it is to live up to them.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#4. I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

Bert Blyleven

#5. So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make them believe that earth can be turned into Heaven at some future date by politics or eugenics or 'science' or psychology, or what not. Real

C.S. Lewis

#6. I'm probably one of the few people that liked 'Water World' with Kevin Costner.

Bert Blyleven

#7. I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

Bert Blyleven

#8. I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.

Bert Blyleven

#9. I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

Bert Blyleven

#10. Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.

Bert Blyleven

#11. It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations.

John Robert Gregg

#12. C'mon, you know you want to be the star to my burst.

K. Bromberg

#13. I believe that being a successful rapper is probably attainable.

Jon Connor

#14. I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.

Amanda Lindhout

#15. If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#16. When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.

Bert Blyleven

#17. Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

Famke Janssen

#18. I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

Bert Blyleven

#19. I think if you're in favor of World War III, you have your candidate. You know, here's the thing.

Renee Montagne

#20. I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee.

Bert Blyleven

#21. Youth has no age.

Pablo Picasso

#22. The best thing about the New Year is your 4.90 ERA disappears and starts back at zero.

Bert Blyleven

#23. There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

Richard K. Morgan

#24. My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

Bert Blyleven