Kevin Towers quotes

  • I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.
    -- Kevin Towers

    #Pressure #Defense #Chance

  • I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.
    -- Kevin Towers

    #Defense #Pressure #Chance

  • There's just not a lot of inventory, and to find a shortstop or a catcher, or a centerfielder, that you think that could stay at those positions... they're very hard to acquire. Sometimes you have to overpay for them, because of that lack of inventory.
    -- Kevin Towers

    #Thinking #Inventory #Sometimes

  • The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

  • Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.

  • For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

  • The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

  • no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There‟s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

  • The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

  • Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

  • The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

  • Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

  • I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.

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