Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Quisenberry

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Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Daniel Raymond "Quiz" Quisenberry was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Kansas City Royals. Notable for his submarine-style pitching delivery and his humorous quotes, he led the American League in saves a record five times. Quisenberry retired in 1990 with 244 saves, then the fifth-highest total in major league history.

American - Athlete | February 7, 1953 - September 30, 1998

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Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Dan Quisenberry

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

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If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

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A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

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The future is much like the present, only longer.

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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

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I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

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I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

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It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

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When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.

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It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

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