Christy Mathewson Quotes
Collection of top 22 famous quotes about Christy Mathewson
Christy Mathewson Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Christy Mathewson quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.
— Christy Mathewson
She was certain that the Vicario brothers were not as eager to carry out the sentence as to find someone who would do them the favor of stopping them.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.
— Robert Palmer
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.
— Christy Mathewson
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
— Christy Mathewson
I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
— Christy Mathewson
He was more than just my dominant. Luca was my teacher, friend, and inevitably.. the Master of my heart.
— Michelle Hughes
Travelling with a tail-end ball club is the poorest pastime in the world. I would rather ride in the first coach of a funeral procession.
— Christy Mathewson
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
— Christy Mathewson
The pursuit of knowledge was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
— Christy Mathewson
If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
— Benjamin Franklin
As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
— Dante Alighieri
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.
— Christy Mathewson
I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.
— Christy Mathewson
No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.
— Christy Mathewson
If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.
— Barack Obama
A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
— Christy Mathewson