Quotes About Anticipation

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.

He contained two equal sorts of knowledge: the warm lazy knowledge that above on the mountain a blond girl in a white dress waited for him, shy and eager; and the cooler knowledge that this was unlikely and the good of climbing was the exercise and view from the top. There was no conflict between these knowledges, his mind passed easily from one to the other, but when he stood up to begin the last of the climb the thought of the girl was stronger.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

I believe that better times are coming.

Imagination ist alles. Es ist die vorschau des lebens auf die kommenden attraktionen.

I love to travel but hate to arrive.

I am not one of these pessimists; I believe that better times are coming.

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

In the street he drew a deep breath. He was free. Free from recollection and anticipation. Free, for an hour or two, to refuse to admit the existence of the past or future. Free to live only now and here, in the place where his body happened at each instant to be. Free -- but the boast was idle; he went on remembering. Escape was not so easy a matter.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfillment?

El viaje transcurrió sin el menor incidente. El Cohete Azul del Pacífico llegó a Nueva Orleáns con dos minutos y medio de anticipación

Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential