37 Quotes by Dan Quisenberry

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    I want to thank all the pitchers who couldn't go nine innings, and manager Dick Howser who wouldn't let them go.

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    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.’

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don’t have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

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