Top 66 R A Dickey Quotes
#1. Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#2. You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes.
R.A. Dickey
#3. A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.
R.A. Dickey
#6. When you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#9. We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#10. I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game.
R.A. Dickey
#12. It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#13. There is no whole truth, but this is what we have,
And it goes on
Beyond impact, beyond reach, beyond recall ...
James Dickey
#14. Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#15. A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey
#17. There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
James Dickey
#19. I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty good knuckleball. I worked hard to do that.?
R.A. Dickey
#20. I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
R.A. Dickey
#21. There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?
R.A. Dickey
#22. When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.
R.A. Dickey
#23. I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.
R.A. Dickey
#24. I had a wife that did not want me to have a singular regret about chasing my dream, which helped me tremendously. I did not want to have a singular regret. I always held out hope that it was going to turn for the better. That's always what motivated me was hope.
R.A. Dickey
#25. The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft.
R.A. Dickey
#26. I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
R.A. Dickey
#27. I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.
R.A. Dickey
#28. Who doesn't want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn't grow up wanting to be the best? I'm no different. I want to be the best. I've always wanted to be the best.
R.A. Dickey
#29. If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing ... unless you are willing to do the work
R.A. Dickey
#30. It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!
R.A. Dickey
#31. Realistically, I shouldn't be able to turn a doorknob without having some discomfort.
R.A. Dickey
#32. The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.
R.A. Dickey
#36. At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.
John Dickey
#38. What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.
James Dickey
#40. I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.
Charles Dickens
#41. Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.
James Dickey
#42. The death of a real deer at my hands was just a vaporous, remote presence that hovered over the figure of the paper deer forty-five yards away at target six of our archery range, as I tried to hit the heart-lung section marked out in heavy black.
James Dickey
#43. I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it's a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it's like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#44. A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#45. I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.
Bill Dickey
#46. I can't tell you how excited I am to be a part of an organization that's committed to winning.
R.A. Dickey
#47. I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#48. Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#49. Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#50. He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#51. Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#54. A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times
Eric Jerome Dickey
#55. As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
George Steinbrenner
#56. What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
James Dickey
#57. don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#58. You must have a goal in life. We all should have goals. Or we are lost.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#59. He says, "Your husband fucked my wife."
We look at each other and this time it's different. Now I know him.
"My husband didn't fuck your wife." My voice is soft. Not amorous, but the tone of a bewildered child. "They had a relationship, then came home and fucked us.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#60. I always thought that 'wilderness' was somewhere where God wasn't. It took me a long time to learn that 'wilderness' is a mighty sacred place.
Sylvia Dickey Smith
#64. Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
James Dickey
#66. In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.
James Dickey
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