A Quote by Alex Rodriguez

Baseball has a funny way to tap you on the shoulder when you least expect it and tells you it's the end. — © Alex Rodriguez
Baseball has a funny way to tap you on the shoulder when you least expect it and tells you it's the end.
Life has a funny way of letting things fall into place when you least expect it.
Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it.
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.
Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.
You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.
If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny, don't laugh. Or you could possibly go as far as groaning or rolling your eyes. Then you wait for his next joke; if that's funny, then you laugh. If it's not, you don't laugh - or at very worst, you can leave quietly.
But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.
If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny, dont laugh. Or you could possibly go as far as groaning or rolling your eyes. Then you wait for his next joke; if thats funny, then you laugh. If its not, you dont laugh - or at very worst, you can leave quietly.
I don't think anyone should tap you on the shoulder and tell you that it's time to sit down and retire.
Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.
For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
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