"My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Eddie Mathews

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Balls Quotes

“A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.”
“The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”
“If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.”

Source : "Donatella & Allegra". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 28, 2007.
“There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.”
“Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead.”
“Raindrops keep fallin' on my head. But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red. Crying's not for me. Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining.”
“I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.”
“How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?”

Source : Terence (1859). “Comedies of Terence”, p.182

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