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Phil Niekro Quotes

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

Phil Niekro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1939

Topics

Never Whatever Throw Knew Pitcher

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Jimmy Buffett

Mind Quitting Enter

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

Jim Harrison

Good Enough Rational Journalist

We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn't my real job. My real job was to be an actor. I always knew that and never forgot that.

Jessica St. Clair

Job Actor Never Real Always Just

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

Joel Osteen

Faith People Believe Think Growing

Music is a huge inspiration to my style. I first got into it when I was 10: the new wave mod scene.

Maxine Peake

Music Style Wave New First Got

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

John Mahoney

Think Criticism Done Anything United

One of my pet peeves in athleisure today is clothes that make a woman feel square and one-dimensional.

Anna Kaiser

Today Pet Woman Feel Clothes Square

When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.

Summer Glau

Girl Alone Time End Someone New

I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room.

Robert Webb

Day School Tea Mind Dinner Kitchen

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Ronnie Milsap

Work Money Day Fun Will Some

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Russell Baker

Myself Poetry World Lonely New Up

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

Josh Thomas

Life Think Talking Comfortable Just