R.A. Dickey
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Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
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2012
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Throwing Strikes: My Quest for Truth and the Perfect Knuckleball
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2013
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I Choose Peace: Raw Stories of Real People Finding Contentment and Happiness
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2019
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Knuckleball Ned
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2014
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Bat Flip: The Greatest Toronto Blue Jays Stories Ever Told
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Wherever I Wind Up
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“If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing...unless you are willing to do the work”
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“One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It mean the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funnelling all awareness to the athletic task at hand.”
― Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
― Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
“Knuckleballers don't keep secrets. It's as if we have a greater mission beyond our own fortunes. And that mission is to pass it on, to keep the pitch alive. Maybe that's because we are so different, and the pitch is do different, but I think it has more to do with the fact that this is a pitch that almost all of us turn to in desperation. It is what enables us to keep pitching stay in the big leagues, when everything else has failed. So we feel gratitude toward the pitch. It becomes way more than just a means to get and out.
It becomes a way of life.”
― Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
It becomes a way of life.”
― Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
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