A Quote by Tug McGraw

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Tug McGraw

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Bent Between Ears Elbow Inches Palm Seven Trouble Twelve

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Tug McGraw
American - Athlete
August 30, 1944 - January 5, 2004

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

Arnold Palmer

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Jim Mattis

When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears.

Ruth Westheimer

So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.

Upton Sinclair

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

James Mattis

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

Warren Spahn

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I've been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume - four-and-a-half inches wide, seven inches tall - made by a company called Denbigh.

Michael Dirda

Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.

Claudia Gray

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

Malcolm X

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

Malcolm X

When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

Malcolm X

An IPL match may be decided when the ball passes inches beyond the grasp of a fielder on the boundary or when a direct hit catches a batsman inches short of the crease.

AB de Villiers

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Hattie McDaniel

I don't like the way the cage is set up. I think it's really dangerous that the metal comes up about three inches off the ground. People were putting their foot on it. I can see it. And I was worried about being taken down and landing backwards with my elbow. and damaging my elbow or even my head.