#certain

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard. ↗

— Chili Davis

#away #bat #certain #certain things #counts

I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis. ↗

— Eric Davis

#better now #cal #certain #certain things #davis

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. ↗

— John Dewey

#man #man lives #mystery #surmise #uncertainties

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#fails #failure #like #nothing #say

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative. ↗

— Drake

#becomes #certain #flip #get #go

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#communicated #communication #experiences #other #poetry

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#backgrounds #black #certainly #lose #museum

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#mental #necessary #order #stuff #tyrant

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#grammy #importance #know #links #people

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#dead #feel #i #idea #much