Carl Pohlad Quotes
I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
-
I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
-
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
-
Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.
-
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.
-
When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
-
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.
-
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
-
It's fun; baseball's fun.
-
I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.
-
Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
-
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
-
I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.
Gail Devers -
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
-
If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
-
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
-
On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'
-
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
-
My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.
-
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
-
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
-
Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.
-
Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.
-
I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
