Johnny Mize Quotes
The pitcher has to throw a strike sooner or later, so why not hit the pitch you want to hit and not the one he wants you to hit?
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A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.
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I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
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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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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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Now that I'm famous, guys don't hit on me.
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It felt good. I was just trying to throw strikes.
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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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Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.
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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.
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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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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit.
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How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
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Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
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Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.
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The pitcher has to throw a strike sooner or later, so why not hit the pitch you want to hit and not the one he wants you to hit?
