Dan Quisenberry quotes
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“Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.”
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“A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.”
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“Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.”
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“The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.”
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“Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.”
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“It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'”
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“Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.”
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“It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.”
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“I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.”
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“Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.”
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“I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.”
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“The future is much like the present, only longer.”
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“I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.”
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“Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.”
-- Dan Quisenberry
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