I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.
Jim Thome
GoodWalkMeFastStrikeRun
It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
Kanye West
MeStrikeNeverJeansWearAgainst
There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.
Jennifer Hyman
CultureYouGoStrikeKindMore
People strike out. I strike out a lot - it happens. Just got to keep working.
Aaron Judge
PeopleStrikeOutKeepWorkingJust
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
Earl Weaver
ForgetStrikeSayOutUpSide
The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.
Jeff Goodell
ControlYouBadEarthStrikeHuman
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
Simon Sinek
CareerStrikeAfraidOutBabe Ruth
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
Tom Stoppard
LifeMeStrikeBeingEventState
Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.
Rusty Schweickart
TimeConsequencesEarthNowStrike
I'm a very jovial guy. I like to laugh, and when things strike me as funny, I don't hide the fact that it's humorous to me. It almost doesn't matter where I'm at: I will burst out and laugh if it's funny to me.
Michael Rooker
FunnyMeLaughHideStrikeMatter
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.
Joyce Carol Oates
BestPeopleDoneStrikeWantSort
You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.
Dick Wolf
PeopleRealityYouStrikeSayVote
My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.
Condoleezza Rice
SomeoneYouBackStrikeHimClub
I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
Annie Lennox
JobWorryWeekStrikeUnionsGoing
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare
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Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.
Pauline Neville-Jones
KnowNowStrikeTerrorismInside
It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.
Richard Grimes
ManagementGivingStrikeMoreOdds
Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.
Lynn Nottage
AgeNowStrikeProtectLeverage
No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.
James P. Cannon
VictoryImpossibleStrikeHeadWould
The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.
Guo Guangchang
MomentWaitStrikeAimFirstRight
I don't really watch video, but I see the replay; like when I do strike out, and I'm walking back to the dugout, I look up and see if they do show the replay of me swinging and missing.
Freddie Freeman
MeWalkingLookBackStrikeSee
Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.
Dwyane Wade
ReadyPlayStrikePlayers
If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.
Bill Dedman
DeathDieStrikeWillHungerGoing
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