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?
Quotes to Explore
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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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If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.
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Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.
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Love is the face and body of the Universe.
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Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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They've had to battle to win without some of their players. With those players back in the lineup they'll be a lot tougher to beat.
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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?
