Uggla Quotes

#1. The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.

Dan Uggla

#2. I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.

Joni Mitchell

#3. Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well.

Dan Uggla

#4. No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Jostein Gaarder

#5. At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

Cat Stevens

#6. My joy was ghostly, like something not quite realized.

Roshani Chokshi

#7. If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

Dan Uggla

#8. Cultural creation ... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Will Durant

#9. True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Julius Charles Hare

#10. I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Freida Pinto

#11. If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

Dan Uggla

#12. Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

Walter Lippmann

#13. What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Thomas Carlyle

#14. The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.

Win Butler

#15. Oh, well," Mat said idly, "she's just the Dragon Reborn's woman."
(about Min)

Robert Jordan

#16. When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.

Dan Uggla

#17. All the stuff about who's hitting behind you and who's hitting in front of you-it plays a little bit of a part. But you can't just base your approach off that because you'll end up getting beat in the end.

Dan Uggla

#18. Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.

Dan Uggla