Top 37 Eckersley Quotes
#1. You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.
Dennis Eckersley
#3. Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
Dennis Eckersley
#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.
Dennis Eckersley
#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.
Dennis Eckersley
#7. My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.
Beatrice Sparks
#8. I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.
Dennis Eckersley
#9. The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
Dennis Eckersley
#10. Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.
Dennis Eckersley
#11. 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.
Dennis Eckersley
#12. 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.
Dennis Eckersley
#13. Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
Dennis Eckersley
#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.
Dennis Eckersley
#15. Pitching ... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
Dennis Eckersley
#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.
Dennis Eckersley
#17. I'm jealous as fuck," he said, his voice rough. "That's not really my thing, but it's the truth. I don't much like the idea of some other man touchin' your sweet ass, and if one of them tries to stick his cock into that pretty little cunt of yours, I'm gonna cut it off.
Joanna Wylde
#18. Remember, no matter how dark the night, there is always a happy ending. But first, you have to make it through the night.
L.J.Smith
#19. 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.
Dennis Eckersley
#20. 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.
Dennis Eckersley
#21. Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.
Jane Fonda
#22. If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later.
Richard Branson
Richard Branson
#23. 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.
Dennis Eckersley
#24. 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.
Dennis Eckersley
#25. It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.
Dennis Eckersley
#26. My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.
Dennis Eckersley
#27. But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)
Neil Gaiman
#28. 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.
Dennis Eckersley
#29. When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.
Alison Sweeney
#30. But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.
Dennis Eckersley
#31. I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.
Dennis Eckersley
#32. Much ado was always made about secretive meetings.
Lorraine Heath
#34. He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn't in some very significant way a let-down.
Joe Dunthorne
#35. When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
Dennis Eckersley
#36. Let go of everything else, he urges in my mind. Just be here. With me.
Cynthia Hand
#37. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
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