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American baseball player and poet (b. 1953), Birth: 7-2-1953, Death: 30-9-1998 Dan Quisenberry Quotes
1.
Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.
Dan Quisenberry

2.
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.
Dan Quisenberry

3.
I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry

4.
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

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It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'
Dan Quisenberry

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6.
It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.
Dan Quisenberry

7.
Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.
Dan Quisenberry

8.
I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.
Dan Quisenberry

Quote Topics by Dan Quisenberry: Baseball Jobs Player Relief Real Pitcher Sports Littles Week Games Best Things League Motivational Sports Poet Loser Flaws Sound Way Team Character Fire Movie Fastballs Future Years Helping Bugs Pregnancy Hazards Wonderful
9.
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

10.
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.
Dan Quisenberry

11.
Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
Dan Quisenberry

12.
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
Dan Quisenberry

13.
He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.
Dan Quisenberry

14.
The future is much like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry

15.
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
Dan Quisenberry

16.
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.
Dan Quisenberry

17.
It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.
Dan Quisenberry

18.
They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.
Dan Quisenberry

19.
When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.
Dan Quisenberry