Scott Kazmir famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.
-- Scott Kazmir

#Games #Trying #Strikes
Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit.
-- Scott Kazmir

#Mean #Thinking #Different
I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.
-- Scott Kazmir

#People #Trying #Way
I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.
-- Scott Kazmir

#Division #Tampa
This is a dream for me, it really is, to be the leader of a staff going into the season.
-- Scott Kazmir

#Dream #Leader #Staff
I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.
-- Scott Kazmir

#Pitcher #Whole #Comfortable
It's worth everything to be in the World Series.
-- Scott Kazmir

#World #World Series #Series

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Scott Kazmir famous quotes

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