"I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling."

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Source : "The Slow Boil" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

David Cone

#Love Is Quotes #Hands Quotes #Games Quotes

“White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.”
“Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.”

Source : Calvin Miller (2003). “A Hunger for the Holy: Nurturing Intimacy with Christ”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
“Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and Iâ€™ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and Iâ€™ll...I donâ€™t know. Donate Adrianâ€™s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one.”
“You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.”
“On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation.”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA
“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you canâ€™t measure something, you canâ€™t understand it. If you canâ€™t understand it, you canâ€™t control it. If you canâ€™t control it, you canâ€™t improve it.”
“In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.”
“Giving yourself over to the fine line of a human-like droid means that sometimes you make choices that don't make you feel good, as an actor, and you have to learn to embrace that. No actor will tell you that that's a good place to be.”

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