Tony La Russa Quotes

I think there's a growing number of pitchers who want to have a plan going into a game about how they're going to go after that lineup. I'd say 75 percent want to have an idea, and they plan their attack. I know that 75 percent of hitters do not have that same type of plan against a pitcher.

Tony La Russa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 4, 1944

Topics

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I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.

John C. Reilly

StarsBeautifulPeopleMeThink

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

Jeremy Irons

PeopleRulesPlayAlwaysAgainst

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

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The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

Michael D. Higgins

HeartRespectExcellenceCreative

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

Meshell Ndegeocello

LearningMusicPeopleInteresting

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough.

John Ridley

WorkGoodBeginningThoughtCamera

I love to run, but training can be hard, especially with a family and a crazy travel schedule. I often do sprints with my kids, where they bike and I run along side them so we can 'race' each other for a quarter-mile or shorter repeats.

Summer Sanders

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I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

Steven Moffat

HopeKnowBecomeWellBooksHated

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

Tracy Morgan

Not PerfectPerfectStrive

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

Ron Silver

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We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

Moby

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I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

Loretta Lynn

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