Darin Erstad famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'
-- Darin Erstad

#Baseball #Dad #Hands
Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort.
-- Darin Erstad

#Hate #Thinking #Games
During the season I really don't do anything else but play baseball. I've never wanted to get away from baseball for a break. Why would I want to get away from it? I love the game. I always have. There's nothing else I'd rather do.
-- Darin Erstad

#Baseball #Games #Play
I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.
-- Darin Erstad

#Sports #Growing Up #Sorry
I don't think there's any danger of my ever becoming complacent about losing. I always hated to lose, regardless of what it was, even when the family was playing Yahtzee.
-- Darin Erstad

#Thinking #Becoming #Losing
Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy.
-- Darin Erstad

#Boys #People #League

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Darin Erstad famous quotes

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