Tim Wakefield famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with.
-- Tim Wakefield

#Baseball #Guy
Its nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.
-- Tim Wakefield

#Nice #Way #Trouble

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
A few weeks later, Iâ€™m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. Iâ€™m sitting next to a guy whoâ€™s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like weâ€™re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. Heâ€™s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God heâ€™s not a genius.
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, â€œThat guy is kinda delusional.â€
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

Tim Wakefield famous quotes

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