Top 25 Kruk Quotes
#1. If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.
Andy Van Slyke
#2. When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
John Kruk
#3. On this Twitter thing, at least five people a day say 'bring back the mullet.' My wife told me I'm not allowed. Troy Tulowitzki wants me to grow a rat-tail for his charity. I was like, 'What the heck is a rat-tail?'
John Kruk
#4. Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.
John Kruk
#5. Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
Gary Oldman
#6. I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?
John Kruk
#8. Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.
Thomm Quackenbush
#9. For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved ([6]delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
Anonymous
#10. If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
John Kruk
#11. Rest when you need to, but never quit.
John Wooden
#12. People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.
John Kruk
#13. Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer
John Kruk
#14. You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!
John Kruk
#15. I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.
John Kruk
#16. I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.
John Kruk
#17. My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.
John Kruk
#18. You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.
Clint Eastwood
#19. The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
Milton Friedman
#20. If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#21. What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.
Cynthia McKinney
#22. I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.
Audrey Tautou
#23. I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
Jim Harrison
#24. I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
John Kruk
#25. I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me ... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.'
John Kruk
