Dennis Eckersley Quotes

#1. You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.

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#2. I also think that I had great mechanics.

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#3. Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

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#4. I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

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#5. I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

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#6. When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

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#7. I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

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#8. The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.

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#9. Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

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#10. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one ...

James Madison

#11. It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic but acceptance was the key to my sobriety ... If I didn't have acceptance at that time in my life I would not be standing here today.

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#12. Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

Stephanie Mills

#13. Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

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#14. People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

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#15. Pitching ... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

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#16. I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.

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#17. That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

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#18. The end is built into the beginning.

Charlie Kaufman

#19. They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

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#20. I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by my attempt at humor regarding the tragedy in Japan. I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families.

Gilbert Gottfried

#21. When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

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#22. Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and Mexico is hardly the alien civilization that some (really, just Samuel Huntington) would suggest.

David Plotz

#23. I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.

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#24. But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

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#25. I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

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#26. I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

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#27. My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.

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#28. It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

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#29. Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.

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#30. I consume music the way other people consume movies.

Lena Olin

#31. But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

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#32. I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

Nick Carter

#33. Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.

Shaquille O'Neal