Strikeout Quotes

#1. I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

George Herman

#2. Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

Josh Beckett

#3. I drove nice cars, I got a nice house. But now I'm steady missing you like a strikeout

Drake

#4. I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

Stan Coveleski

#5. It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

Rickey Henderson

#6. I guess somethings turned out too sad even to be explained with a bases-loaded strikeout.

Ava Dellaira

#7. Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

Dan Millman

#8. But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play.

Roger Clemens

#9. 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

#10. Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

Mickey Mantle

#11. Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them.

Rick Tocchet

#12. Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

Babe Ruth

#13. I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

Billy Corgan

#15. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.

Herman Melville

#16. Skating was a gift given to me, and it's a sport I love. I go out there every single day and there isn't a day I don't want to be out there

Apolo Anton Ohno

#17. [the writer] must copy, with his finite mind, the process of the infinite 'I AM.

John Gardner

#18. The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli

#19. Doing the weekly shopping, I stock up on stir-fry kits, Amy's meatless burgers, and armloads of onions and garlic. I put onions and garlic in everything.

Carrie Underwood

#20. Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

Mike Dirnt

#21. If Prophets and Messengers are the closest to godliness as any human is capable of being, and yet even they fail, how the fuck can anyone, less than perfect, be so arrogant as to expect they will do better than a Prophet, or Messenger of G-D.

Alejandro C. Estrada

#22. Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!"
"Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.

Carolyn Keene