Quotes from D. B. Sweeney

I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.

DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.

If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.

I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.

When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.

I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.

There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold.

When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.