"You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes."

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Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

R.A. Dickey

#Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Games Quotes

“Love is only found in books”
“The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that I think I've been able to realize a lot of things that were just ideas. When I was living in New York City, it's such a rat race, it's so competitive and everything is so concrete and in your face all the time. If you're like, "I'm gonna be a writer!" Everybody's like, "Yeah, you and all the other ***** on the subway." There isn't a lot of space for the detached, free-floating movement of the imagination.”
“As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”
“In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.”
“In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.”
“I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say and now I tend to get it more out of books and from conversations with people I meet.”
“I think people in general think more about their insecurities.”
“Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.”

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