R.A. Dickey Quotes

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty good knuckleball. I worked hard to do that.?

I can't tell you how excited I am to be a part of an organization that's committed to winning.

nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!

marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

hate is cancer of the soul!

jealously lives with insecurity!

we can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!

only a fool would argue with a fool!

not all thoughts have to become words!

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

restrictions create frustrations!

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

jokes are used to hide the truth!

loneliness has its own needs!

Realistically, I shouldn't be able to turn a doorknob without having some discomfort.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.

He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

you're just a side dish not the main course!

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

we shed the skins of who we used to be!

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

Resentment makes anything possible.

safety and love are both illusions!

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.