Darin Erstad Quotes

When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'

Darin Erstad

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• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Gay
  • Said

• My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Same

• The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hands
  • Class
  • Ignorant

• One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Children
  • Love
  • Dad

• I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Baseball
  • Fever
  • Goose

• I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Past
  • Professional
  • Hands

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • People
  • Never
  • Said

• I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Hands
  • Mystery
  • Intelligence

• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Fall
  • Said

• 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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Years
  • Baseball

• As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Child

• I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Stand

• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • She
  • Air

• I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Different
  • Think
  • Feeling

• It's just unfortunate that a network only makes their profit off of live viewership because their hands are tied by advertisers. They may believe in the show and want it to continue, but they just unfortunately can't afford it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Believe
  • Live
  • May

• Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Life
  • Family
  • Dad

• My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Dad

• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
  • War

• We will take stock of our next steps after the Israeli elections and intend to have a further meeting as soon as the Palestinian delegates are allowed to travel.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Travel
  • Stock
  • Election

• This state of independence shall be!

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Independence
  • States

• When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'

  

  Darin Erstad
  • Dad
  • Baseball
  • Hands