Quotes About Perception

People say that because I'm short I get a lot more skid off the pitch.

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

While American ballplayers from Mickey Mantle to David Ortiz have flipped their bats, the act is still perceived as a great offense here - an insult to the pitcher, the opposing team and all that's sacred in America's pastime.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

Pittsburgh, where you once couldn't wear a shirt for more than an hour, is a lot cleaner than Hollywood.

Of course I got angry when I lost and maybe would cry in my hotel room afterwards. But I would never show it. I didn't want the men's pity. I didn't want to share my pain with them.

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

At times, I pity my comedian image. People start laughing seeing me even in funeral processions.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

Care and pity are two different things.

In the media, from the little bit that I have read... there's not a lot of pity. There are some people, usually older people who have been around or people who really know basketball. Other people in the media are usually like, 'Well, stop getting injured.' You know, like I can control it.

We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

I think what women think is sexy is what is sexy. Girls eating pizza are massively sexy.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots.

Ghetto isn't a place. Ghetto is more in the mind and how you feel about your life.

If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

I became a human placebo.