Words matter. These are the best Sean Doolittle Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The National Mall is a special place for my wife and I. We got married on Signers Island in Constitution Gardens. It’s a little spot tucked away on the National Mall. There are lots of places like that where you can find a quiet place to get away from it all.
Baseball came before a lotta things in my life.
At the end of the day, I’m a huge baseball fan. I love the game.
I played all sports growing up. Baseball was always my favorite, though.
An A’s fan made me a Darth Vader helmet but painted in A’s colors.
People really respond when given an opportunity to take part in something.
One thing that bothers me is the way that people use veterans and troops almost as a shield. They say that’s the reason they stand and that veterans deserve to be honored and respected during the anthem. But where is that outrage in taking better care of veterans?
I just like showing people – and this might be at the root of everything that I’ve done – that I don’t want to be looked at as a baseball robot.
If you can get kids excited about reading, maybe that can open up a whole other world for them.
Maybe I’m biased because I’m a pitcher, but I think that’s pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.
I feel like I’ve always believed what I believed. I’ve just become more vocal about it.
Somehow BB-8 and Chewie are really funny without even speaking English.
I used to care a lot about what other people thought – like teammates.
You can’t have an ego in the bullpen. At the end of the day, we’re a group. We’re only as good as the sum of our parts. Whatever you’re called on to do that day, you’ve got to be willing to do it for the boys.
If you’re gonna do museums, some of the best in the world are in D.C.
The pay in the minor leagues, I think it’s terrible, it’s disgusting, it’s exploitative.
I love my job, but it can be a little stressful at times. And reading has become a really healthy escape.
I mean, in A ball, there were five of us in a two-bedroom apartment. In Double-A, I think there were like eight of us in a four-bedroom house. There’s a lot of that going on so that guys can… and the whole time, you’re sleeping on air mattresses and you’re using Rubbermaid bins as furniture.
To baseball players, our caps are sacred. We integrate our caps into our strange routines and superstitions, removing and replacing them on our heads with ritual precision so they sit just so.
I think my patriotism is strong enough to not be offended when somebody takes a knee during the anthem. That’s not something I take personally.
There are some guys that can roll out of bed and they can throw 96 from the very first outing. I’ve just never been one of those guys.
If you get mad at something that says ‘Love Wins,’ I don’t know what to tell you.
I’ve pitched in a lot of different roles in my career. I’ve been the middle-inning guy. I’ve been a lefty matchup guy. I’ve closed. I’ve kind of done a little bit of everything.
I think it’s okay to have fun and show some character and some personality.
If you’re going to come to D.C. and it’s your first time here, see the view from the bottom of the Washington Monument, looking out over the Reflecting Pool to the Lincoln. And see the Jefferson Memorial. It’s so beautiful and such a part of the history of the city.
In an All-Star game the players are having more fun than usual and showing their personalities more than usual. And there are guys in this game – I’m not one of them – who are historically good. First-ballot Hall of Famers.
By the time I was in first grade, we had settled in New Jersey, and that’s where I grew up, outside of Philadelphia, right in the heart of Eagles country.
I try to stay involved with veterans’ issues. I work with some veterans charities.
I think it’s important to realize that the players who are protesting aren’t protesting the anthem. They’re not protesting the flag. People kind of move the goalposts on them and try to tell them what they’re protesting. But as they keep saying, that’s not what they’re protesting.
Our union helps ensure that we earn fair pay and benefits.
