Dave Winfield quote: "These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up."

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans ...
DAVE WINFIELD

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-...
DAVE WINFIELD

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.
DAVE WINFIELD

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. ...
DAVE WINFIELD

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just re...
DAVE WINFIELD

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinso...
DAVE WINFIELD

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problem...
DAVE WINFIELD

He didn't bask in fame or glory or the money he made. He relished in the notion that a little short ...
DAVE WINFIELD

Baseball realizes it's not the only game in town. You have to do these kinds of things to introduce ...
DAVE WINFIELD

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans ...
DAVE WINFIELD

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.
DAVE WINFIELD

Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You...
DAVE WINFIELD

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the g...
DAVE WINFIELD

The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing d...
DAVE WINFIELD

He was the first person I met in pro ball because we both wore a size 14 shoe. He had interesting co...
DAVE WINFIELD

It won't taint (his memory). Leave it alone.
DAVE WINFIELD

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toro...
DAVE WINFIELD

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the ...
DAVE WINFIELD

There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn'...
DAVE WINFIELD

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
DAVE WINFIELD

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
DAVE WINFIELD

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, tha...
DAVE WINFIELD

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
DAVE WINFIELD

But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest he...
DAVE WINFIELD

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance...
DAVE WINFIELD

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
DAVE WINFIELD

I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.
DAVE WINFIELD

Now it's on to May, and you know about me and May.
DAVE WINFIELD

He's a leader out there on the field. His team is going to go how he goes. If he's having a good gam...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

We didn't play well at all. Our offense gave us enough points to come out with a win. What hurt was ...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

Once we got hit in the mouth, we didn't know how to react. Coming in, they were the No. 1-rushing te...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

We could have easily folded. I mean, we're 1-4, we haven't been playing well, and we're down 17-0 at...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

You put pressure on him, and he gets happy feet back there. Then he's not as accurate. I think I wou...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

I really don't understand why they did that. He's a heck of a player. I understand the salary cap an...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

We didn't expect to be 1-3 at this point. But the good thing is, it's still a long season, and we're...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

It's tough to win in this league. We knew the situation. They had the No. 2 seed in the NFC locked u...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

For me, when I'm on the field, all I think about is what happening on the field. That's my outlet, t...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

I think we need to blitz and contain. Make sure we hold the edges. He's such a good athlete that, ev...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

We want to make sure it is on everybody's radar while the session is just beginning.
BRIAN WINFIELD

I think Albert's coming forward is incredibly courageous, and a rarity, if not a first. It's been pa...
BRIAN WINFIELD

We walked away with the expectation that charges would be forthcoming. I'm convinced that he (Ober) ...
BRIAN WINFIELD

We see it as a desperate attempt by a gubernatorial candidate who is behind in the polls and has mis...
BRIAN WINFIELD

There has been a whole new level of interaction. I have not seen the gay and lesbian community activ...
BRIAN WINFIELD

Caterpillar dun' become butterfly-caterpillar die so butterfly can be. A new thing. We all must let ...
RYAN WINFIELD

With the guys that we have ... there's no reason not to play man-to-man and get after the quarterbac...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

We feel bad for the Saints, but we're in a bad situation at 0-2. We can't go 0-3. A win cures everyt...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

It was tough. We didn't make the plays to get off the field and the offense didn't make plays to kee...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

There were definitely packages that we didn't even use last year. We have a lot more talent, a lot m...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

We've been real basic. I mean first and second down, a lot of zone. We might mix in a man-to-man eve...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

I know they were one play away from making the playoffs last year, ... Hopefully with my addition, I...
ANTOINE WINFIELD

When it came down to it, I just wasn't ready. I didn't want to rush,
ANTOINE WINFIELD

Brave rifles, veterans, you have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!
WINFIELD SCOTT

Say to the seceded States: "Wayward sisters depart in peace."
WINFIELD SCOTT

We're really starting to see Microsoft gear up. Of course, the company was asleep at the wheel for a...
CHRIS WINFIELD

Alyssa had been working for an art source in Southern California as their Northern California repres...
CHRIS WINFIELD

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappea...
RYAN WINFIELD

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal gov...
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK

only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.
BRIAN WINFIELD SIPE

I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a ...
DAVE MATTHEWS

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But...
DAVE ATTELL

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
DAVE BARRY

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
DAVE BARRY

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
DAVE ANDERSON

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
DAVE BARRY

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another pe...
DAVE BARRY

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
DAVE BARRY

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is ...
DAVE BARRY

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
DAVE BARRY

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to a...
DAVE BARRY

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
DAVE BARRY

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
DAVE BARRY

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bod...
DAVE BAUTISTA

A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are t...
DAVE ATTELL

As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hindui...
DAVE DAVIES

I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I s...
DAVE GAHAN

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.
DAVE FOLEY

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood abou...
DAVE DAVIES

Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a...
DAVE BRUBECK

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, stra...
DAVE EGGERS

That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.
DAVE HAYWOOD

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attentio...
DAVE EGGERS

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students a...
DAVE EGGERS

The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it se...
DAVE BRAT

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
DAVE BARRY

A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each...
DAVE FINKEL

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to be...
DAVE MORRIS

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm ...
DAVE ROWNTREE

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civ...
DAVE MATTHEWS

We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some hea...
DAVE OBEY

Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is th...
DAVE BARRY

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
DAVE BARRY

The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes i...
DAVE BARRY

I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated ...
DAVE GAHAN

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.
DAVE FREUDENTHAL

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're...
DAVE GROHL

I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do...
DAVE LEGENO

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY

The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is va...
DAVE DEBRONKART

Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones'...
DAVE MORRIS

Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son ...
DAVE GAHAN

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to...
DAVE BARRY

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or...
DAVE BARRY

The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE!
DAVE ZEBIAN

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...
DAVE BARRY

I'm so alive.

As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afte...
DAVE PELZER

'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narr...
DAVE MORRIS

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't thi...
DAVE MATTHEWS

I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at on...
DAVE SITEK

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
DAVE FARBER

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless...
DAVE BARRY

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitutio...
DAVE BARRY

There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slu...
DAVE MATTHES

...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
DAVE MATTHES

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
DAVE BARRY

That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth...
DAVE EGGERS

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to l...
DAVE EGGERS

Quantity is what you count, quality is what you count on.
DAVE BARRY

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know ...
DAVE BARRY

You had me at "We'll make it look like an accident."
DAVE BARRY

Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bare arms!
DAVE BARRY

I'd take a nerf bullet for you.
DAVE BARRY

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car...
DAVE BARRY

The first person who decided to say a word instead of throwing a rock can be considered the starter ...
DAVE BARRY

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have...
DAVE BARRY

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r...
DAVE BARRY

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
DAVE BARRY

I may not know Karate, but I know crazy and I'm not afraid to use it.
DAVE BARRY

In beer there is freedom, in wine there is health, in cognac there is power and in water there is ba...
DAVE BARRY

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
DAVE EGGERS

Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing...
DAVE MATTHEWS

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see wi...
DAVE BARRY

Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural En...
DAVE GORMAN

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time...
DAVE EGGERS

How could I have been anyone other than me?
DAVE MATTHEWS

My band career ended late in my senior year when John Cooper and I threw my amplifier out the dormit...
DAVE BARRY

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, ...
DAVE PARNAS

Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading.
DAVE STORER

Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.
DAVE JOHNSON

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would b...
DAVE BARRY

A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread o...
DAVE CAREY

What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be...
DAVE BARRY

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popula...
DAVE BARRY

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated ...
DAVE BARRY

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
DAVE BARRY

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who ...
DAVE BARRY

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the ...
DAVE BARRY

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in...
DAVE BARRY

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went...
DAVE BARRY

Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today its open to anybody who owns h...
DAVE BARRY

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo...
DAVE BERRY

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.
DAVE SIM

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any ...
DAVE BARRY

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
DAVE BARRY

A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer
DAVE BARRY

It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mer...
DAVE BARRY

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the p...
DAVE BARRY

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they...
DAVE BARRY

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
DAVE BARRY

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withst...
DAVE BARRY

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should aris...
DAVE BARRY

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.
DAVE BARRY

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas...
DAVE BARRY

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless y...
DAVE BARRY

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that h...
DAVE BARRY

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to sa...
DAVE BARRY

And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to ta...
DAVE BARRY

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious pe...
DAVE BARRY

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
DAVE BARRY

New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace ...
DAVE BARRY

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organiza...
DAVE BARRY

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won...
DAVE BARRY

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night
DAVE BARRY

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
DAVE BARRY

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
DAVE BARRY

I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Futu...
DAVE BARRY

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a compute...
DAVE BARRY

If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.
DAVE WEINBAUM

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with th...
DAVE BARRY

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous sys...
DAVE FOREMAN

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see wit...
DAVE BARRY

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but ...
DAVE BARRY

We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately c...
DAVE EGGERS

You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that wo...
DAVE EGGERS

It’s not that I’m not social. I’m social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufa...
DAVE EGGERS

Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not ...
DAVE WILSON

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, usi...
DAVE BARRY

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this i...
DAVE BARRY

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
DAVE CHECKETT

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
DAVE KELLETT

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dic...
DAVE KELLETT

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple lea...
DAVE MEURER

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should aris...
DAVE BARRY

The future is no place to place your better days.
DAVE MATTHEWS

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new per...
DAVE KELLETT

I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymit...
DAVE EGGERS

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offeri...
DAVE REICHERT

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come a...
DAVE EDMUNDS

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
DAVE BARRY

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, includi...
DAVE BARRY

These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.

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These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.

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