Three strikes and you are out


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Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.
TONY LA RUSSA
I don't want it a third time, because three strikes, you're out.
ADAM STEPHENS
(Proposition 66 and the Reform Three Strikes Act) are like apples and oranges.
JANE ROBISON
I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three errone...
CORY DOCTOROW
His record: Parole abolished. Juveniles arrested for rape or murder tried as adults. Three strikes a...
JAMES GILMORE
When you go out there and throw strikes, no matter who you are, you're hard to beat. That's what he ...
ED EASLEY
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Don't suck juice out of dirty belly buttons. You will get a stomach ache.~A Nerissa Proverb
NERISSA IRVING
He's tough. He's the real deal there. When you have three pitches you can throw for strikes, it's to...
TIM FUNKHOUSER
When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out...
DREW POMERANZ
The law we have doesn't undo (three strikes), it just fine-tunes.
BRIAN DUNN
People are looking to help any way they can. When disaster strikes, you hate to say it, but when dis...
WHITNEY ELLIS
(Cooley) feels that Three Strikes should only be used for the most serious and violent felons.
JANE ROBISON
I felt like we swung at a lot of balls and took a lot of strikes. Tonight, he struck out three in th...
CHRIS BATES
All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo ...
FATOS NANO
(Byrd) has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He ...
ADRIAN BELTRE
(Davis) threw strikes. Our defense is good and if we get people throwing strikes we're going to get ...
CRAIG MILBURN
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We'd like to have three starters to throw strikes. Carlos and Victor, they threw a little last year....
MIKE FROSCO
…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the D...
GEORGE Q. CANNON
…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the De...
GEORGE Q. CANNON
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three ...
JESSE JACKSON
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even ...
BILL VEECK
I just had command of three pitches. My secondary pitches, like the curveball and change-up, I threw...
ERIK BEDARD
Once you raise your own child and you will comprehend the hardship of your parents. – Chinese prov...
CHINESE PROVERB
It comes down to who can throw strikes and get guys out.
LARRY WAYMAN
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even ...
BILL VEECK
Kenny was outstanding; he was throwing three pitches for strikes and kept Central off balance. I was...
FRED BENCRISCUTTO
We expect Davis to go out there and throw strikes, to battle and compete.
JAY SFERRA
All you can ask for is strikes out of our pitchers. When you can't make the play, it can be frustrat...
JEFF LAROCHE
I feel very confident with two strikes. I feel it's more of a freedom. I get very upset with myself ...
DAVID ECKSTEIN
The board's feeling is that three-strikes is a great law if used appropriately, and this measure to ...
DAVID LABAHN
We felt we needed pitchers who could throw strikes. The two players we sent out were not throwing st...
NED COLLETTI
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Strikes are the only way to protect worker's rights. If anything there are too many taxes in Italy, ...
GABRIA CARLINI
But you don't strike out until after you get to two strikes. He does best when he's thinking small a...
JEFF MANTO
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
It's nice to look out there and know we have guys that can throw strikes.
JARED BROWN
I thought Josh pitched well today, threw strikes for the most part. Of course, he hadn't thrown all ...
BART MCATEE
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING
It strikes me that you are trying to use the newspapers' good name for your own purposes.
CHARLES WHEELER
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insu...
EPICTETUS
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
CHINESE PROVERBS
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
He's just a starting pitcher. He's got three pitches, and he can throw them all for strikes. With hi...
BRIAN MCCANN
Take me out to the ball game Take me out with the crowd Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks I don'...
JACK NORWORTH
The umpire did the best he could, but some pitches were so far out. You can't call balls one and two...
BOB TOMLINSON
He throws the ball 90 miles an hour. We just need him to throw strikes. If he can throw strikes, he'...
RICH PAPIRIO
He's much more comfortable coming out of the bullpen. He throws more strikes.
GREGG LANGBEHN
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
LEWIS CARROLL
WHEN BOREDOM STRIKES HUNGER STRIKES TOO!
MIRTEL CARBIèRE
He who strikes first, strikes twice.
MEXICAN PROVERB
What he does is throw strikes and mix his pitches up. That's what he does well. Any pitcher that thr...
BENGIE MOLINA
With two strikes, that was a big homer. Anytime you see a guy do that with two strikes it's a plus.
CARL HUNCKLER
People are tired of strikes and disruptions. There is a sense of fatigue.
YUBARAJ GHIMIRE
You're supposed to throw strikes in that situation instead of wasting pitches. You don't want to sta...
BRAD THOMPSON
When you get to the playoffs, you'll win it with pitching, defense and timely hitting. That was a go...
JASON HORNE
The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from...
THOMAS SZASZ
When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ...
GARY F EVANS...
We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted...
JOHN GREEN
Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Ar...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
This is the best I've felt in about three to four years. I'm pitching with no pain. I'm able to conc...
ALEX ROUCH
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
HERODOTUS
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change
HERODOTUS
Strikes are the only way to protect worker's rights.
GABRIA CARLINI
Obviously, there is some apprehension there because they've never umpired at the professional level....
TODD STEVERSON
You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
SALLY FIELD
For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those wh...
BILL BRADLEY
He threw the ball good today. I remember facing him when he was in Toronto. He's a competitor. He th...
DAMIAN MILLER
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB
One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?
C. FERN COOK
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to...
YULIA TYMOSHENKO
Such strikes are never good for the economy. But in the past strikes haven't halted an economic upsw...
JOERG KRAEMER
I was trying to throw strikes. That's what happened, I didn't throw strikes. I have to come back to ...
PEDRO ASTACIO
I feel good out there right now and I'm throwing strikes, plus the hitting and defense has been just...
BRIAN BOONE
Those three have been setting the pace, and others are mixing in and out.
DENNIS DRISCOLL
Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If n...
CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
Don't just take it for granted because they give you three names and three phone numbers. Check the ...
DON COHEN

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