Bobby Murcer quotes

Bobby Murcer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.”
-- Bobby Murcer

#Trying Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Jello Quotes
“You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.”
-- Bobby Murcer

#Thinking Quotes #Swings Quotes #Focus Quotes
“What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.”
-- Bobby Murcer

#Ignorance Quotes #Wish Quotes #Hell Quotes

“In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.”
“It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986
“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”

Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013
“Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.”

Source : "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.
“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”
“Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”
“Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces”
“There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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