Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Ben Zobrist Quotes

When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.

Ben Zobrist

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: May 26, 1981

Topics

Direction You Back Ready Go First

I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.

Andrew Benintendi

Work Think Mindset First Hard Count

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.

John Joly

Great Universe Results Minute Forces

After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?

Jeff Sessions

Work Today Time People Immigration

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Jef I. Richards

Creativity Advertising Because Asset

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce

Politics Principles Advantage Conduct

You slow down when you get older.

Stephen Stills

Slow You Down Get Older

I can stay in the bath for, well, the longest has been seven or eight hours. I get completely set up with my laptop so I can watch 'The Sopranos,' put out some scented candles, music. I have a towel nearby so I can dry my hand to change the music or the TV. I make a little heaven for myself. And then I just refill and refill.

Suki Waterhouse

Change Music Myself Heaven Bath Out

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.

Steve Rushin

Mother Death Game Frustration Golf

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

Tom Petty

Think Doing Quit Never Capable

In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.

Michael Leunig

Great Loneliness Think Lonely Wander

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

Jordan Peele

Time Yourself You Said Successful

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

Rick Astley

School School Days Days Been Around