Quotes of: Professional-baseball-player Keyword

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Kurt Russell

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

Curt Schilling

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

Mike Johanns

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

Alex Chiu

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

Anthony Holden

I was so raw I didn't know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into the stands. It was started by Leroy Butler years before and has been copied by players all over the league. Don't be fooled, though. The...

Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as real...

Ready Player One

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken. Just as mistaken as those who believe that IQ tests have anything to do with talent or that there is a relationship b...

Soccer in Sun and Shadow

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparin...

Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback

It’s widely noted that among players currently eligible for the Hall of Fame, Maris and Murphy are the only two-time MVP recipients not enshrined at Cooperstown. In a previous book I argued Maris should be in the Hall of Fame—here I’d simply po...

Tucker Elliot

Peter Brand: I wanted you to see these player evaluations that you asked me to do. Billy Beane: I asked you to do three. Peter Brand: Yeah. Billy Beane: To evaluate three players. Peter Brand: Yeah. Billy Beane: How many you'd do? Peter Brand: Forty-...

Moneyball

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

Divided & Conquered

It shatters the game, exposing the players

Aisyx

A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp.

Robbie Keane

I consider myself very much a team player.

Sigourney Weaver

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Tom Kite

Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.

Brian O'Driscoll

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

Esperanza Spalding

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

Francis Lee

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

Stuart Appleby

We try to recruit good players and good people.

Tim Buckley