Jon Lester Quotes

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'

Years ago, the writers were telling me that I'd make the Hall of Fame, so I kind of prepared a speech. But somewhere along in the 28 years, it got lost.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

At 17 I was graduating and didn't know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.

When I left WWE, I always knew that I wanted to come back when the time was right.

People ask me, 'Man, are we gonna see one more match?' And I've always said, 'Hey, never say never, because you never know what you're gonna do.'

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. That never works! So, I don't know what to say, other than that they can expect me.

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.