Goose Gossage Quotes

#1. Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

Bruce Sutter

#2. In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

Goose Gossage

#3. I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.

Goose Gossage

#4. I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

Goose Gossage

#5. No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Anton Chekhov

#6. You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.

Robert Ferrigno

#7. I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Lionel Richie

#8. When I played, Old-Timers' Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees ... It was an out-of-body experience.

Goose Gossage

#9. Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been saying for years, 'You have got to stop the out of control federal spending, or you will end up at this point.' We're there.

Marsha Blackburn

#10. The big secret of TextBlock is that its Text property (of type string) is not its content property.

Adam Nathan

#11. Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

Woody Allen

#12. Five years of hell. You deserve to be fucked till you can't walk.

Kresley Cole

#13. The higher the exposure a product receives and the greater its perceived social acceptability, the more people will buy it, which in turn further increases its exposure and acceptability.

Sheena Iyengar

#14. I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

Sara Paretsky

#15. I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

Goose Gossage

#16. I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

Goose Gossage

#17. Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

Mason Cooley

#18. But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.

Karen Tayleur

#19. Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

Goose Gossage

#20. I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.

William James Moore