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He pitched through recreation leagues. He has a good, strong arm. We typically are not real crazy moving our shortstop off of shortstop, but we are looking at him as a closer and how he handles that role.


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PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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RODNEY BROOKS When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS First fight. Then fiddle.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poem...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing t...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS We are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's ins...
SCOTT BROOKS I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for ...
SCOTT BROOKS Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a...
ALBERT BROOKS It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
GARTH BROOKS We rode pretty hard for about 30 or 40 kilometers, but eventually it got a bit disorganized. There w...
BEN BROOKS It will be a lot funnier. It will have a lot more raw material, as I call it.
BEN BROOKS We started to execute more and our team did not have as many turnovers. We just played better as a t...
BEN BROOKS The sponsors were even more keen because they wanted to have more of a brand awareness down here.
BEN BROOKS The Herald Sun Tour is one of the premier cycling events in Australia, so the boys and I are keen to...
BEN BROOKS I was his host for nine Phoenix Opens and would fly him over in a private jet. I always tried to tel...
BEN BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the ...
ALBERT BROOKS A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up hi...
MEL BROOKS