Juan Marichal famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough.
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The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing that makes the arm stronger.
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If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.
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You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.
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We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.
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But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.
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I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.
-- Juan Marichal
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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I get to keep you,†he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?†I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,†he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.†I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
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Fear is stronger than arms.
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A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
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Yes, of course. But ... how?" Kat felt her crew around her: Hamish's arm hung around Simon's shoulders; Gabrielle's delicate hands draped through the arms of Angus and Nick. Kat's own hand found Hale's, then, fingers interlacing, palms pressing together so tightly that Kat knew nothing could come between them. Nothing. She looked at him. No one. "It's easy," Kat said, "when you don't have to do it alone.
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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