I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.
To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.
In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.
I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.
I don't hit home runs in BP.
Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.
Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.
I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.
One thing is for certain: under President Obama, home schooling will become a huge growth industry.
By the time I was 12, I was starting my high school stuff in home schooling.
I actually just started home schooling. And it is great.
Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.
