Dan Quisenberry Quotes

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

• Future
• Like
• Present

I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Dan Quisenberry

• Security
• Watching
• Cause

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

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• Home
• Help
• Attention

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

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• Way
• Hit
• Los Angeles

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

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• Fear
• Nothing
• Losing

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

• Future
• Like
• Present

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

• Future
• Like
• Present

I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

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• Time
• Good
• Real

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

Dan Quisenberry

• Job
• Me
• Loss

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

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• More
• Relief
• Pitcher

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

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• Gun
• Manager
• Villain

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

Dan Quisenberry

• Best
• Baseball
• Homework

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

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• World
• Games
• Year

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

Dan Quisenberry

• Someone
• Balls
• Catch

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Dan Quisenberry

• Live
• Game
• Sometimes