Felix Hernandez Quotes

Try this, try that. He'd played baseball a lot, too.

Felix Hernandez

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• Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Country
  • Baseball
  • Fans

• When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Why
  • Wonder

• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Baseball
  • Fame
  • Numbers

• Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Dad
  • Kind
  • Baseball

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

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

  

  Vin Scully
  • Baseball
  • Fever
  • Goose

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• 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

• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • Father
  • Baseball

• I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Baseball
  • Very
  • Follow

• Baseball is just my job.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Job
  • Baseball
  • Just

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

  

  Carolyn R. Dimmick
  • Together
  • Lawyer
  • Feminist

• And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Faith
  • Wish
  • Advice

• As a kid, I imagined being an artist.

  

  Elizabeth Diller

• I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

  

  Ben Casnocha

• Try this, try that. He'd played baseball a lot, too.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Baseball
  • Played