Ben Zobrist Quotes
In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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I love taking pictures. I'm always the one with the camera!
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
