Jamie Moyer Quotes
The balls they hit were elevated in the (strike) zone. It was a mater of making the adjustments to keep the ball down and get some ground balls.
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I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.
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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
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Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
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I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.
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I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.
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It felt good. I was just trying to throw strikes.
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I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.
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Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.
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Probably the best I saw was a guy they said took pitches too much, that he should have tried to hit a ball even if it was a little outside: It was Ted Williams. They say he would tell the umpire whether it was a ball or strike.
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I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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You've got balls inviting me here.
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Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
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Strike lustily for life, and hurry not your blows, but let each toll.
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The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
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We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
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In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.
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I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
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I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.
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It's funny what producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.
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The balls they hit were elevated in the (strike) zone. It was a mater of making the adjustments to keep the ball down and get some ground balls.
