Eddie Murray's Quotes
Born: 1956-02-24
Profession: Athlete
Nation: American
Biography of Eddie Murray
And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.
Tags: Home, Love, WorkAnd like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.
Tags: Learned, Said, WinI'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
Tags: Baseball, Game, ProudIt makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
Tags: Home, Makes, TalkToday I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
Tags: Great, Greatest, TodayYou win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
Tags: Team, Together, WinAnd I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
Tags: Successful, Tell, WhyNo one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
Tags: Dad, Good, MomWhen Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
Tags: Friendship, Said, WinI wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
Tags: Rock, Today, TomorrowI've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
Tags: Often, Poetry, ThinkingIn fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.
Tags: Actually, Fact, NatureA sequence works in a way a collection never can.
Tags: Collection, Sequence, WorksHumour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
Tags: Keep, Poetry, RespectI don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
Tags: Book, Someone, WrongI feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
Tags: Adult, Thinking, ThoughVisit partners pages
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I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
Tags: Once, Short, WriteI was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
Tags: Develop, Process, WritingI'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.
Tags: Easy, Interested, YesNew York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.
Tags: Breaking, Thoughts, YorkThe whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.
Tags: Disturbs, Started, WholeWell, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
Tags: Reality, Rock, RomanticEven the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
Tags: Money, Poetry, SuccessI am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.
Tags: Again, May, Start