Stephen Strasburg (Stephen James Strasburg) Quotes

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

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• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Image

• The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Being
  • Musicians
  • Intensity

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Feel
  • Problems
  • Discouraged

• I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Change
  • Me

• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Everything
  • Starts
  • Daydream

• Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Living
  • Instruments

• Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Day
  • Better

• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • May
  • Dream

• Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

  

  B. B. King
  • Love
  • Job
  • Road

• The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Man
  • Hate

• Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Dad

• That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Great
  • War
  • Picture

• I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Long
  • Why

• Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Just
  • Run
  • West

• That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People
  • Time

• She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

  

  Alice Munro
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him, … I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.

  

  Bob Dole
  • Good
  • May
  • Business

• Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Guy

• It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Why
  • Free
  • Competition

• In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • United States
  • Patriotism

• I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

  

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