Quotes About Carlton Fisk

#1. I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

Pete Rose

#2. It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

Carlton Fisk

#3. I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.

Carlton Fisk

#4. I guess the most difficult thing for me was living up to my mom's expectations. I was always scared that if I didn't do things in this certain way, then my mom just wouldn't think I was great. That's something that was difficult for me growing up.

Milla Jovovich

#5. And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

Carlton Fisk

#6. But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.

Carlton Fisk

#7. I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.

Carlton Fisk

#8. People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

Carlton Fisk

#9. A million years went by quick.

Carlton Fisk

#10. I have very talented art directors in my agency who start out telling me, 'Well, this is what the picture is ... ' I ask, 'Well, what's the headline?' and they say, 'We haven't done that yet, but it looks this way.' But I'm still writing copy, almost every day.

Jerry Della Femina

#11. Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.

Gelett Burgess

#12. It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Carlton Fisk

#13. You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

Martha Beck

#14. It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

Carlton Fisk

#15. If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

Carlton Fisk

#16. He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

Daniel Clowes

#17. The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

Carlton Fisk

#18. To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.

Eugene Cernan

#19. Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

Ari Marcopoulos

#20. I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to ... ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

Kate Adie