Vance Law Quotes
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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Baseball is a team game.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.
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Decisions need to be made in milliseconds out on the field, and you need to almost know what the other guy is thinking and exactly what he's going to do.
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If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!
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Creativity is not talent but attitude.
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There's something very powerful about going after what you want seriously.
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When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
