Lineup Quotes

Onstage I do all the stuff I’d never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I’ve ever had.

In the pursuit of a championship and beyond, I’m determined to take my performance, on and off the field, to the next level. I’m confident that MET-Rx and their great lineup of sports nutrition products is the perfect partner to help me do just that.

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say ‘from Robbins, Illinois’ instead of ‘Chicago, Illinois.’

There are no more holes in my management lineup.

I like the style of National League baseball. I like the different moves that have to be made. I like the fact that the No. 8 spot in the lineup can be one of the more challenging spots. It’s a lot more strategy for that hitter and for the catcher sometimes with the pitcher coming up.

A team like Golden State makes you change your lineup a little bit.

In other ways, one way to be in a lineup or stay in a lineup or stay in a spot is to produce.

I want to be an impact hitter. I want to be a guy that’s in the lineup and he’s an impact. I want people to be like, ‘Arenado’s coming up.’

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, ‘We’re done.’ After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, ‘Now I’m going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.’ Rather than play it safe, he went on.

If you look at the teams that mix and match their starting lineup a great deal, that sort of inconsistency frequently leads to inconsistency in performance.

Typically, in New York, there are so many comics on a single lineup that you can only do eight minutes.

I’ve hit 1, 2 and surprisingly I’ve hit 3 most of my life. Not that I’m going to be hitting 3, but I feel like those are three really different positions in the lineup. And I feel like I’ve done all of them. I know what’s expected at each one of those, and I feel like you can take that experience away.

In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy – Ken Singleton – Flanny, and Cakes – the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer – were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.

When you do make a coaching change, it obviously does shake up everybody, it makes you wonder where you stand in the lineup.

Having a relentless lineup full of professional hitters works on so many levels. It works in terms of pure baseball reasons: if you get on base, you’re going to score runs.

I always want to score as quickly as possible, whether I am in the starting lineup or playing as a substitute.

You figure when you match up against other clubs and you go through the lineup one through nine, you get to the nine hole, if you can put together an at-bat or you can see some different pitches that helps give you an advantage competitively, it can make your lineup stronger.

The fact I’ve been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.

You don’t want to get stuck playing 40 minutes a game with your small lineup.

Every day, you want to come in and contribute when your name is in the lineup.

The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O’Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

It’s going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. That’s something you can do regardless of how many times you face a lineup or face certain hitters.

I don’t want to be a slap hitter, but be a dangerous hitter in the lineup and want people to come right at me.

I think the smart teams are chasing those well-rounded players, making that well-rounded lineup, having that well-rounded team.

I think that’s what you need throughout your lineup. You need guys to help each other and feed off each other and to have that chemistry.

I love working for Fox News, and I feel like I play for the Yankees every day. I’m with the best lineup in the business.

I think there’s a growing number of pitchers who want to have a plan going into a game about how they’re going to go after that lineup. I’d say 75 percent want to have an idea, and they plan their attack. I know that 75 percent of hitters do not have that same type of plan against a pitcher.

Some players just have the natural stroke that you throw them in the lineup and all of the sudden they turn on a ball and hit it out of the ballpark.

I’ve always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I’ve snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I’m going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.

People cried nepotism every time I was on the field. But I played for a lot of coaches before I played for my father, and I started for everybody. He wasn’t the first person who all the sudden put me in the starting lineup.

Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it’s a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades.

I’m a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it’s ‘Beasts’ or ‘Winter’s Bone,’ wound up in the Oscars lineup.

You really want to try to continue to pile up outs as often as you possibly can. Whether they get a hit or not really doesn’t affect the way you continue to approach that lineup, especially with a five-run lead.

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

It’s just not thinking about starting all the time. You’ll think, ‘Just because I’m having good games, I need to be in the starting lineup.’ Your teammates and coaches respect you even more if you’re having good games and you’re not worrying about it.

I hate this idea that I’ve somehow become detached. It’s like I can’t win. I’d been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I’m not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

Sometimes I make mistakes in my lineup. I don’t make any mistakes to harm someone.

I would just like to win. Wherever I need to hit in the lineup, whatever works.

I’m going to have to work it, compete for that starting spot, compete for that job. I’m willing to come in and work, willing to compete and go at people in practice so I can have that ability to start in the starting lineup.

Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup.

When he asked if I would like to try second base, I thought, Hey, get me in the lineup.

My career has been so different than most guys. I’ve kind of bounced around and always, one way or another, ended up in the starting lineup. So I would say my career has been very unique.

If a hitter gets hot, I wouldn’t take a hot hitter out of the lineup.

The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.