That game taught me my uppercut,


Vladimir Guerrero

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I always swing at bad pitches, ... But lately I was swinging at even worse ones.
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He comes into the clubhouse and says hello but doesn't put any pressure on you, ... It makes you fee...
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If something looks good, I'm swinging. They pay me to hit. I look at the ball and swing.
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We're really close, ... My mom's very important to me. It's nice to go home after games and forget a...
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If you see me play, that's the way I am all year,
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I feel happy with what I've done after coming back from a bad injury, ... I'm taking the same hacks ...
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I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999,
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I've said from the beginning that I would not play and I haven't changed my original plan.
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Right now I have to think about here. I know about the [jersey] but I have to think about my family....
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This one felt more like it was stretched out. I overstretched it a little bit.
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I'm going to keep my head up,
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I have no frustration,
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It feels pretty special, because those are guys that I've heard were tremendous players. To be in th...
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I am very, very happy for the fans, ... I really wanted to do it here for them because they have bee...
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I remember my family talking about all the destruction they had there, ... One thing I feel very hap...
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It's really something that's not new, even though I changed leagues and changed teams. If they walk ...
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I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels unifor...
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Mickey was right, ... I was too close to the plate.
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Vladimir hits the ball as hard as anyone in the league. He swings and hits bad pitches. He sees so m...
JAVY LOPEZ
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO
My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taugh...
BILLY CASPER
Vladimir: Did I ever leave you?
Estragon: You let me go.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but...
SAMUEL BECKETT
My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.
ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC
That game taught me a lot about making sure of your throws. I feel like I've grown up a lot since th...
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Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult g...
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My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.
DAYMOND JOHN
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
FRAN TARKENTON
Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to...
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My mom taught me how to love, my dad taught me how to be a man.You put them together, and ill be you...
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No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for ...
KIP PARDUE
I was taught at an early age to be humble, ... All my family taught me that. You can't forget where ...
BRYSON SUMLIN
'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY
There is one thing that you'll never take from Eddie Guerrero. Eddie will always be a champion.
CHRIS BENOIT
That whole (jail) experience taught me never to take anything for granted. It taught me to keep focu...
KYLE MYRICK
My parents taught me well,they spanked me every once in awhile.
MONK FROST
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad,...
WADE BOGGS
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
CHRIS BROWN
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that...
HILARY DUFF
The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a ...
RUDY GIULIANI
Coach Jones taught me a lot along the way. And of all the things he taught me, the one thing that st...
COREY PARISH
I mean it's just like all the hard work is starting to pay off now. I'm taking pitches and I'm looki...
ELIJAH DUKES
The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of m...
NICKY OPPENHEIMER
My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.
YVONNE PIERRE
My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.
AERIN LAUDER
My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively.
SOPHIA AMORUSO
Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.
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I grew up on WWE. Eddie Guerrero is my everything. He's my hero, as are Shawn Michaels and Tiger...
T. J. PERKINS
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
JOHN G. POLLARD
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
WILLIAM ADAMS (EXPLORER)
He's my backbone. He's taught me a lot. For starters, he tempered me down.
KAREENA KAPOOR
My father taught me to work, he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they enc...
BRIAN BLESSED
Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't ...
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Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do,...
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Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred...
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Coach Hill built a relationship with me from an early age. He taught me things that went beyond the ...
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that pene...
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught ...
VIK MUNIZ
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
BILLY GRAHAM
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My parents raised me right. They taught me to believe in myself and have confidence in me.
ELISE BRONZO
I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything abo...
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Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.
FRANK SCOTT
I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his...
JESSE MCCARTNEY
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
DAVID GEFFEN
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historic...
CANDACE CAMP
Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievem...
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Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to tru...
S.A. TAWKS
I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me
THOMAS MORE
My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her...
AMY JOHNSON
My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her...
AMY JO JOHNSON
Chicago taught me when to talk, taught me when to shut up, taught me when to stay, taught me when to...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID
I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who s...
STEPHEN CURRY
With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught...
PETE WENTZ
My father always taught me to never be quiet. That's the good thing about a Bengali household.
MOUNI ROY
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dream...
SUSANA MARTINEZ
One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
Q-TIP
Of all the lessons my parents taught me,
GIVING was the best
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
Especially when I was young, my dad taught me a lot of Latin.
CALEB MITCHUM
VLADIMIR: What do they say?
ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives.
VLADIMIR: To have lived...
SAMUEL BECKETT
The immediate return of ambassador Vladimir Villegas has been ordered,
ALI RODRIGUEZ
Vladimir leaned forward. “Never dilute vodka. Is sin.
JENNIFER LANE
I mean, each one of them coming into my life has brought me something, taught me something.
BILL BERLONI
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That...
THIERRY HENRY
My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette ...
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My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.
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The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen onl...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
VLADIMIR LENIN
It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country w...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become c...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
VLADIMIR LENIN
We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a bus...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into acc...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defe...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrou...
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...
VLADIMIR LENIN
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just beca...
VLADIMIR LENIN
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to en...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Crime is a product of social excess.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the read...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For m...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the h...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss som...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
VLADIMIR KRAMNIK
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary s...
VLADIMIR LENIN
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
VLADIMIR PUTIN