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I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.


Brooks Robinson

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FRANK ROBINSON I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into m...
TORY LANEZ I would go anywhere to see Brooks Robinson. He was the best third baseman ever. Nobody played third ...
JERRY CARTER I don't want to talk about my hitting. My job is to pitch a good ballgame every time out. The triple...
CARLOS ZAMBRANO In fairness to Dmitri Young, if you're going out there and asking him to be Brooks Robinson and you ...
JIM LEYLAND It does not totally erase the record.
GEORGE ROSS I would love for someone with more notoriety than myself who has more broad-base appeal you know lik...
BOB BALLARD Dale Robinson has made more plays that anyone could have imagined.
BRENT GUY I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the recor...
WINONA RYDER Dale Robinson has made more plays that anyone could have imagined,
BRENT VENABLES One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who playe...
JOSH CHARLES Anyone know how can erase mind memory?
HIREN PATEL Go figure. You hit into four double plays, that's not good.
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BHAGAVAD GITA But, mark my words; someday she'll get what's coming to her. Karma's a bigger bitch than she is,
KATHLEEN BROOKS I think about plays and stuff. I kind of run through the game in my mind.
JUSTIN JOHNSON I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal o...
LISA LUTZ It's triple the Trump this season...I invited my children, Don Jr. and Ivanka into the boardroom.
DONALD TRUMP I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
HOWARD BARKER We led the league in hitting into double plays last year. We don't have a whole lot of team speed an...
KEN MACHA Seeing everyone else around me looking like someone killed their dog, I tried to be my own self and ...
AMANDA WALDENMAIER The game itself, I think, plays into the strength of my game, which has always been tee to green, hi...
TOM LEHMAN Pool is huge here. I can't go anywhere without running into someone who plays on a league.
JOHN AMELSBERG In my mind I am comparing the Olympics and this event. Doing the (triple) Axel was an important poin...
MATT SAVOIE I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.
ZAC BROWN I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
AARON STATON I had a triple and a double and still managed to shoot 70. Not bad. It's not easy to get your mind o...
THOMAS AIKEN My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And...
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TEMPLE GRANDIN Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
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EDGEY ARBUCKLE They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
ANDY SLYKE They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
ANDY VAN SLYKE Anybody would be disappointed (after Robinson chose Patterson) with what I put into it,
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CAITLIN MORAN It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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DWIGHT GOODEN A lot of plays have fallen into my lap this year. I'm definitely not satisfied with gimme' plays.
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KATE BUSH I think people are seeing Tyrus Thomas and think all of my players are just like that. He's the only...
JOHN BRADY Not in my neighborhood, Mr. Robinson.
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
MIKE SCHMIDT Purity of mind,speech and body(triple purity) Is the pathway to Self-Transformation and Self Realiza...
SATYA KALRA My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
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ALAN SCHNEIDER I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has...
JIMMY BUFFETT I've been working on [triple jump] really hard all four years and I'm really confident with all the ...
KATHRYN GEVITZ My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY Again I reply to the triple windsrunning chromatic fifths of derisionoutside my window:Play louder.
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FANNY HOWE I just need to play how I know I can play. That's hitting hard, and making big plays in big moments.
DARIEN JOHNSON One minute before or after and it wouldnt of happend, is it random or fate?
MISS HANNAH HOWITT I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.
DAN MILLMAN I have someone on my mind;....I just don't know who it is yet.
MARTY DEGGELLER My life needs a rewind/erase button.
BILL WATTERSON Early is James Brown, Little Richard and Smokey Robinson rolled into one.
HARRY BRYCE If I had a palace made of pearls, inlaid with jewels, scented with musk, saffron and sandalwood, a s...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I've been seeing lefthanders good all year. I know my numbers stink. I think I've been overly aggres...
ADAM DUNN To win I need to do a triple-triple jump. But I've got to be good overall. I don't see the triple-tr...
SHIZUKA ARAKAWA When I jumped, I lost my balance, ... I thought someone was behind me and I was securing the catch. ...
ANQUAN BOLDIN I am hitting the ball well right now and I just need to put four good rounds together.
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MAYOR SEBASTIAN GIULIANO The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my me...
CRISTIANO RONALDO I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and ...
ART GARFUNKEL "Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked u...
CHARLES DICKENS I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.
ALAN MOORE You find running backs with one or even two of those qualities. But very few have all four at such a...
DOUG DIXON At the back of my mind, I was going for Priscilla Welch's world record [2:26:51], but I slowed down ...
COLLEEN DE REUCK I got cast on 'MADtv' as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who...
ARTIE LANGE They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.
SUZANNE COLLINS My mind was not on the record - I turned down the chance to take a penalty in the third-place game.
JUST FONTAINE I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's D...
EDGAR WRIGHT I have no faith in my works. I know time's ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them....
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the...
TWYLA THARP Rocky is hitting the ball well when we can get her to stay patient. Our first four hitters are all h...
EMMA MORRISON I remember hitting my head and kind of collapsing.
ASHLEY LLOYD (I Found That) Essence Rare
GANG OF FOUR I found that essence rare, it's what I looked for / I knew I'd get what I asked for.
GANG OF FOUR I Fought the Law
GANG OF FOUR Nobody knows you, and nobody gives a damn.
GANG OF FOUR Metal is what it is, when it is what it always was.
GANG OF FOUR I thought Brooks did a great job of performing,
HERMAN EDWARDS Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience r...
CHRIS ROCK I told myself to try and make a game of it. I was only four strokes behind and I was hitting the bal...
ANDREW BUCKLE I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.
TAHEREH MAFI I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO I almost never hit a shot all out, and I make a conscious effort to swing my long clubs just as I do...
ERNIE ELS I put 100 percent into my shows. The fans determine the set list. I'll play two completely different...
EDDIE MONEY I felt real confident with them (Clemmons and walk-on guard Austin Brooks) being on the court. Every...
BRYAN MULLINS There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, ...
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AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Chelsea wasn't on her game, and I made some hustle plays to get my team into it.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun.
GARTH BROOKS In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo...
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