DAN QUISENBERRY

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.

It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.