Eddie Guardado Quotes
Last year I mostly only pitched bullpens and batting practice. I went into the season without pitching in a big league game. But I was feeling great. So we're trying to keep the same routine here.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.
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During the Calciopoli scandal: 'A true gentleman never leaves his lady.'
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Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
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This is the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense -the Innocent Woman Principle : Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.
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If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.
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I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
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Last year I mostly only pitched bullpens and batting practice. I went into the season without pitching in a big league game. But I was feeling great. So we're trying to keep the same routine here.
