- Nov 07, 2020
Down Quotes
Working the count, and watching things slip.
This page uses "down" across very different contexts — a baseball strategy built on working the count against a hitter's expectations, and a theory of absurdist humor rooted deep in the subconscious. For lighter, forward-looking sayings, try Downside quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try to take advantage of taking control of the game when you know you may have guys on base and counts aren't in your favor or whatever. You just try to figure out ways to slow the game down to get back to the pace that you want it to be at, to try to get the momentum back on your side.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be able to go deep in games and save those guys in the pen for down the stretch.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top of it and using some leverage to get it down in the strike zone or get some depth with the ball.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2005, our starting center, Dan Koppen, went down with a season-ending injury. Russ Hochstein was always our interior 'swing guy' - he played guard and center - and I remember Russ stepping in and playing beautifully.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any time you can come down and score on your first drive, that's what you're trying to accomplish.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
One word in one system might mean something else. You have to get a feel for it and study hard and then also when you get into these game-plan weeks, just bear down on what we're doing on a week-to-week basis.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous and rewarding.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.
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- Nov 07, 2020