Harvey Kuenn Quotes

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

I love to play to win.

So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.

Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

I'm completely unqualified for any job I've ever had.

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

My only real job is to play well and do my job on the field. If I do that, all the other stuff will take care of itself.

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.

I feel like the only thing that I can do, and I've been fired from enough jobs, that I'm pretty confident in saying this, the only thing that I can do, even a little bit better than most people, is create that sort of that context with humor. And that's my way of not being helpless and not being hopeless.

People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.

I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.

I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy. I felt I could do it, so why not?