Strikeouts In Quotes

#1. Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

Dizzy Dean

#2. I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

Sting

#3. The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

Simon McBurney

#4. He's going for the home run, I'm going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I'm getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.

Nonito Donaire

#5. All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage.

Guy Branum

#6. The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

Henrik Fisker

#7. My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.

Eli Manning

#8. If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

Dwight Gooden

#9. Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. I get a kick out of seeing the all-time leaders and my name's on top of every one, with the exception of strikeouts. I get a kick out of that.

George Brett

#10. Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#11. At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity
like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.

Ayana Mathis

#12. Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Horace Mann

#13. And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

Lao She

#14. I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

Dan Quisenberry

#15. I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

Willie Stargell

#16. It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Auberon Waugh

#17. If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#18. By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.

Steve Pavlina

#19. Write and create a blue sky
Forever with joy where I can fly.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

Marc Andreessen

#21. I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job is to go deep into the game. When you get strikeouts, you throw a lot of pitches and sometimes you come out early.

Johan Santana

#22. At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

Jamaica Kincaid

#23. For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

Robin Maxwell

#24. A macho attitude is totally to my advantage. Guys try to hit it 400 feet out of the park, but in softball you have to use a short, quick swing. Big, huge swings equal big, huge strikeouts.

Jennie Finch

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

Babe Ruth

#26. I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

Jane Siberry