Felix Hernandez Quotes
I tried to throw my breaking ball, but nothing seemed to work, so I was behind in the count a lot. And when I threw the fastball, they hit it, and it found holes. Tonight was one of those nights when nothing seemed to work.
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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'
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There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
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It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
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The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.
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The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
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I was trying my best to calm everybody down, because we're going to make mistakes. We've just got to be a little bit smarter with the ball.
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If you make a lot of yards and you turn the ball over, then you don't score points, ... So that's a tough lesson to learn. Maybe I'm looking at the good side of it Maybe it's good we get the lesson now. Last year, we started out the season and that's exactly what haunted us -- we turned the ball over and right now we're next to last in the league in terms of giveaways and takeaways.
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You want to keep the ball, make first downs. You're trying to give yourself a chance to run and, every now and then, mix in the pass. When you lose a football game, you can say almost anything about it, but we thought we were trying to do smart things. Finishing off the game, that's a big deal, and that's what we've got to do.
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You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.
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They're going to get better as the season goes on. Next year, I'll be chopping at the bit to watch these guys throw.
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Those same thoughts were going through my head as the ball was floating in there.
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As the ball comes down the pitch at such pace, it is a challenge just to keep going. But I'm working on it.
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We don't have an identity as far as how we play on the defensive end. We might play well one night and on another night we won't play well. We always score the ball and average 100 points, so obviously our problem is in other areas. Until we take care of those problems, we're going to continue to struggle.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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I was convinced high school was the place for me.
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It's just learning the game more. Just trying to approach it in a John Stockton-type of way, to where you don't play so much with your physical ability all the time. You have to think the game out a lot more. That's where I'm a lot better. I know the game a lot more. I see things before they happen a lot.
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We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.
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I tried to throw my breaking ball, but nothing seemed to work, so I was behind in the count a lot. And when I threw the fastball, they hit it, and it found holes. Tonight was one of those nights when nothing seemed to work.
