Quotes About Rod Carew

#1. Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.

Gaylord Perry

#2. Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

Ann Demeulemeester

#3. When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.

Rod Carew

#4. I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

Rod Carew

#5. It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

Marc Andreessen

#6. Your first hit in the majors - that's tops. It means you're on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest.

Rod Carew

#7. Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

Jose Rizal

#9. Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect.

Rod Carew

#10. Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

Rod Carew

#11. One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

Eden Riegel

#12. When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

Rod Carew

#13. Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

Rod Carew

#14. I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

Oscar Wilde

#15. What are you eating?" he ask us.
"Whatever won't kill me, please" I said.
"Whatever don't kill you'll make you stronger" says Eddie, who is always ready with folksy wisdom.
"All right," I say. "Then give me whatever will make me stronger."
"One pizza, coming up.

Adam Selzer

#16. Our commitment to coaches will be realized via TeamCarew, a grassroots marketing program that will provide them with insight and tools to teach the art and science of hitting.

Rod Carew

#17. Cadogan Place is the one slight bond that joins two great extremes; it is the connecting link between the aristocratic pavements of Belgrave Square, and the barbarism of Chelsea.

Charles Dickens

#18. Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. ... All those things.

R.M. Engelhardt

#19. Good friends and great pets. Key to a good life!!! Who says you have to be paired up with a partner?

Jillian Barberie

#20. Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Max Ernst

#21. The way they dress here (California), your head is always in the stands. All those bikinis, your eyes get tired.

Rod Carew