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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I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.
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Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.
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I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I want to go play behind that great offensive line they have down in Dallas.
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On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
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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?
