Stan Coveleski Quotes

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

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• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Possible
  • Someone
  • Reach

• No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • White

• I'm still alive. And I'm still fabulous.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Alive
  • Fabulous

• As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Country
  • Bad

• Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Friends
  • Actors
  • Worst

• When Yogi hit the ball down the left-field line, with Amoros' speed and being a left-handed thrower -- a right-handed thrower probably couldn't have caught the ball. I always kid around with people. I say, 'I was very important in that seventh game.' You don't win many games by being taken out of the game.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • People
  • Important
  • Game

• Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Peace
  • Found
  • Graveyard

• Those are situations where you're almost guaranteed to give up one (run). In fact with second and third with no outs, we just hoped to minimize and maybe give up one, possible two runs. We just didn't want to extend the inning any further than that. To get out of both of those situations without giving up a run was a real boost for us. Offensively, I think it helped give us some momentum to build on.

  

  Vance Law
  • Fact
  • Build
  • Almost

• I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • School
  • I Believe
  • Teachers

• Armenian is the language to speak with God.

  

  Lord Byron
  • God
  • Language
  • Armenian

• All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Humor
  • Begins
  • Ceasing

• I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Ambition

• The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury, the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Teacher
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  • Judgment

• Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Home
  • Europe
  • Worn

• Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Destroying
  • Inaction

• We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Worry
  • Things
  • Bigs

• Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • War
  • Soldier
  • Warrior

• I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

  

  Stan Coveleski
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