Willy was one of those guys who never liked to change gloves. He used to put tongue depressors in the thumb when the glove got a little soft, and he'd stuff sanitary socks in the fingers. I got that from him. When I got a glove, I wanted to use that glove forever.
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Related I told him to get a first base glove, a second base, shortstop, third base and outfield gloves. The ... JERRY NARRON We've got to get him a knuckleball catcher's glove, NORV TURNER A guy like Figgins gets [robbed]. He's got a position, but he can play all over. He's got to get a G... BUCK SHOWALTER It was a kid named Kevin, and I signed a different ball for him and gave him a glove. He tried to gi... GEORGE SHERRILL When I got to first, I felt the ball in my chest. There must have been some kind of contact with Cru... DAVE ROBERTS I like the glove to be a little loose, ICHIRO SUZUKI I can't say I normally get that one. It was a tough hop, hit-or-miss. I got my glove on it, but it d... DERREK LEE The girl had a golden glove in the first couple of innings and got a lot of us. ASHLEY GUILE It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future th... MIKE BARNICLE There are a lot of kids out there and people who are having conversations and not paying attention t... ALEX CORA The most difficult pitch for a young catcher to catch is the glove-hand side pitch. You have a tende... JOE MADDON We saw enough glove saves from him early in the game. I knew I was going blocker. CHAD KILGER I tried to get him to go short side, high to the glove, but he went blocker side and put it in off t... BEN BISHOP Matt said he had good movement. (His pitches) normally will drop. I've got two good pitchers, and I ... HANK ZIZZI When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams s... TONY GWYNN When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove. DON DRYSDALE When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what T... EDDIE MATHEWS I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be... BOB UECKER There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just re... DAVE WINFIELD See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a lit... EVA MENDES When Jesse Orosco threw up his glove in '86, I was jumping up and down on my bed. PAUL LO DUCA I knew I was going home the whole way, [I] just couldn't get it out of my glove quick enough. I prob... CONOR JACKSON If you drop a white glove into the mud, the glove will get muddy but the
mud will never get glovey. UNKNOWN I'd seen enough glove saves from him. CHAD KILGER That was just a great play. We knew they were going to bunt the ball, obviously. It was one of those... CHARLIE SMYTHERS The popup was in no man's land. I've got the largest glove, so I figured I would be the guy to catch... DARIN ERSTAD He's got work to do to get back any skills he may have had. Just because he played there in high sch... BRAD KULLMAN I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING When love enters the picture, the glove comes off. ANNA FORBES When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. VANCE LAW It was much better than the one at Wrigley Field. My best one was still the first one at Shea Stadiu... DAN WHELDON I did not move an inch to make the ball fall in my glove. CARLY HAMILTON I wasn't surprised. He's well known for doing that sort of thing. He gave me a questionable check an... ANTOINE VERMETTE It was a catch. It was a courtesy to show the ump behind me. I was laying there with the ball in my ... JOE CREDE I knew Jason has a really hard shot, so I give him the glove side. He still beat me. I couldn't get ... JOSE THEODORE Catching the ball? That's not a fundamental. It's what you do when you wake up and put a glove on yo... FRANK ROBINSON Iron hand in a velvet glove. CHARLES V Iron hand in a velvet glove. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I always love the smell of a bat and a glove, or a hockey puck in the winter time. TINY TIM When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found g... JEREMY SISTO That's why he has a golden glove. DUSTY BAKER I just hoped I didn't smash into that wall like I did earlier in the year, and just went on and caug... DAMON HOLLINS I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a ... MATT GROENING As much grief as I take the rest of the year, plays like that, you've got to savor them and enjoy th... GARRETT ATKINS I just made a mistake. I thought we needed a change. Usually you don't touch those because things li... ALEC RICHARDS I'm not very good in the rain. I don't wear a golf glove. FRED COUPLES This drill lets him eliminate everything else and concentrate on getting the ball into the glove. He... CARLOS GARCIA I asked him where he got that. I wanted a thousand of those. GARY KRAL Could you tell whether that was a right- or left-handed glove when you looked at it at that time? MARCIA CLARK I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was on... ALAN PARSONS There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the... HONORE DE BALZAC Sometimes, when a horse is in the mud, if you go to override him he'll slip and slide. All I wanted ... CODY JENSEN You never want to see something like that happen. The ball, myself and his glove all came together a... BUBBA CROSBY The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Everybody understands that we've got to put down the boxing gloves and get some stuff done. FABIAN NUNEZ One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think, ... I f... ED BELFOUR The jury concluded that Fuhrman planted the glove. ALAN DERSHOWITZ The first thing I see was the contact, and I go to my left side and the ball went on the right. That... ALFONSO SORIANO When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new... YUNA When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the... KEEGAN BRADLEY I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast g... EVE BABITZ He shows her through a magnifying glass which he holds in a velvet glove. REN GLASSER When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was... CARRIE UNDERWOOD They were not going to let Bo get a good look. The player assigned to Bo just stayed on him like a g... RANDY LAMBERT It was just a great play. Mike Lundin put the puck up nicely to Greg. He jumped over the blue line a... JOSH SOARES When I was 17, I got a call from Konnan. He told me that he was about to start up a new promotion ca... REY MYSTERIO What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove sp... PABLO SANDOVAL I learned a lot being in the big leagues last season. For one thing, I learned I was tipping pitches... EDISON VOLQUEZ The deal fits Nokia's strategy hand-in-glove. HANNU RAUHALA The deal fits Nokia's strategy hand-in-glove, HANNU RAUHALA Chase stooped to inspect it. Angelo handed him a latex glove, which took Chase three attempts to pul... STEFANIA MATTANA I would go anywhere to see Brooks Robinson. He was the best third baseman ever. Nobody played third ... JERRY CARTER I had it, ... My wrist was over the wall. When my glove hit the top of the wall, it popped out. When... BRIAN GILES The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint. REGGIE JACKSON I went to make a butterfly and went down. He shot it top shelf, and my glove wasn't there. It was a ... DOMINIK HASEK I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH The best third-base prospect in baseball. He has awesome potential, excellent power and a good glove... JOHN SCHUERHOLZ I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, ... NICHOLAS SPARKS They will work hand in glove. ANTHONY COLEY I expected a better showing from him. He got tired. He was exhausted when he came back, but he recov... STEVE ASMUSSEN Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. ROBIN HOBB That kid's getting it done with the bat and the glove. ALAN MATTOX Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. P.G. WODEHOUSE I came back to pick up my glove and it was bleeding. I didn't tell anyone. I told my catcher. MARK REDMAN I got to play with the big guys, the Wrecking Crew. They just blew me away. I learned a lot of stuff... GLEN CAMPBELL That's a match I really wanted. I'd never beaten Justin before - in high school or in Little League ... BRANDON LOCOCO My brother and I used to ride around in a half-ton cattle truck, listening to Waylon, so when he die... GENE WEBB When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from ... MIKE MIGNOLA A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. BRENDA BLETHYN I had a cab driver that was so happy and excited to give me a ride that, when I got out to pay him, ... SHAUN WHITE Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, ... GARY OWENS A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the conseque... TRICK DADDY We liked to put a great deal of pressure on the ball. When they feel that pressure, they'll penetrat... ERIC REICHERT I just came to tell him something because I already had the puck in my glove and he slashed me. I ca... DOMINIK HASEK I've liked Edgar for a long time. I thought we should have been in the running for him a long time a... CHIPPER JONES The arm, I don't think it's the most important part of a catcher when it comes to the Gold Glove. It... TONY LA RUSSA This was a classic, two great pitchers going at it, and Brooks (Brown) was a little sharper tonight.... DAVID PERNO I watched him wrestle in his semifinal match and saw that he got tired in the third period. I knew I... CLAYTON WETZEL
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ALLAN BROOKS There are scores of inquisitive people visiting the Archbishop's House to simply have a look at this... ALLAN BROOKS They receive them based on their quality systems, which means that they would have shown strict adhe... ALLAN BROOKS It is something really bizarre, but one must appreciate the skill of the man who tried this phenomen... ALLAN BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra... PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort a... PHILLIPS BROOKS We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. GWENDOLYN BROOKS At least the box is full of something useful. On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran AVERY BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... 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THOMAS BROOKS I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. BROOKS ATKINSON If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. GARTH BROOKS The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t... BROOKS ATKINSON I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. PHILLIPS BROOKS Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. BROOKS ATKINSON A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. PHILLIPS BROOKS Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broad... PHILLIPS BROOKS As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. 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PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe. MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra... PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&... ALBERT BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst... RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h... PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce... MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv... TERRY BROOKS When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue.... ALBERT BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ... TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me... MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d... PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma... PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ... PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ... PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th... PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made th... PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty. PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun. GARTH BROOKS In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo... RODNEY BROOKS When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth... GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter. GWENDOLYN BROOKS I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. GWENDOLYN BROOKS Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi... GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. GWENDOLYN BROOKS