Marichal Quotes

#1. After a leisurely slide into second, Joe bounced to his feet, looked at Marichal, shrugged, smiled, and spread his arms as if to say, You throw at me, I'll make you pay.

John Grisham

#2. Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract.

Tom Seaver

#3. Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.

Sun Tzu

#4. There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Henry Rollins

#5. When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

Juan Marichal

#6. I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down.
-Ganner Rhysode

Matthew Woodring Stover

#7. God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.

Kevin Maurer

#8. I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

Juan Marichal

#9. When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

Farrah Abraham

#10. A man has to know his limitations.

Harry Callahan

#11. Just as the airplane graveyard was Heaven disguised as Hell, harvest camp is Hell masquerading Heaven.

Neal Shusterman

#12. My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.

Juan Marichal

#13. If God can get money through you, He'll get it to you!

Andrew Wommack

#14. There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough.

Juan Marichal

#15. Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#16. If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

Juan Marichal

#17. Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.

Juan Marichal

#18. We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to.

Juan Marichal

#19. I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

Juan Marichal

#20. You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

Juan Marichal

#21. The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.

Juan Marichal

#22. Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

Kim Harrison

#23. The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!

Eric Thomas

#24. We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

Juan Marichal

#25. The captain glares down at me, his lip curled in irritation at my insolence, and something dark, something cold and dangerous, moves behind his eyes. In that moment, I do not doubt him. In that moment, I believe wholeheartedly he is who he claims to be.

Lisa Maxwell

#26. But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

Juan Marichal

#27. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.

Sylvia Plath