Early life Quote by Robert Benchley Download Open image “Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.” — Robert Benchley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Early life Features Great men Ice Men Pitcher Seems
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. — Ty Cobb Copy Share Image
When you look back at the '90s and early 2000s, pitchers took a lot of pride in it. They got the bunts down. Some… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“The best pitchers have a short-term memory and a bulletproof confidence” — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
It's always, 'No matter what the outing is, you can always find a way to be a better pitcher.' No matter what you do. — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who do not.” — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were,… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
“I had a sort of faith during my early life. But devils also have a sort of faith. Still, neither they nor I received… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was. — David Warner Copy Share Image
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've lived in so many different countries over the years. I spent most of my early life in the UK, five years in Germany… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
When I had a baby, I didn't leave the second floor for six months. I nursed my babies. I was a full-time homemaker. I… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life,… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not ... been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image