Dan Quisenberry famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Littles #Bugs #Wonderful
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.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Gun #Fire #Relief
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.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Games #Enemy #Hazards
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Baseball #Homework
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Baseball #Home #Player
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.'
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Sports #Jobs #Character
Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Way #Los Angeles #Burrowing
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.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Stupid #Relief #Helping
I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Flaws #Found #Pitcher
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Losing #Pitcher
I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Time
The future is much like the present, only longer.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Sports #Motivational Sports
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.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Jobs #Real #Mean
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

#Jobs #Loss #Poet

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