There’s been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?
R.A. Dickey
R.A. Dickey
Who doesn’t want a
Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.
R.A. Dickey
I can’t tell you
I can’t tell you how excited I am to be a part of an organization that’s committed to winning.
R.A. Dickey
When you start a
When you start a game, you don’t think to yourself, well, OK, I’m going throw a one-hitter today. It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.
R.A. Dickey
You never go into
You never go into a season thinking you’re going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes.
R.A. Dickey
Realistically, I shouldn’t be
Realistically, I shouldn’t be able to turn a doorknob without having some discomfort.
R.A. Dickey
In an unhealthy way,
In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I’ve since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that’s very important to me. It’s not who I am, though. It’s just what I do.
R.A. Dickey
I don’t really feel
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.?
R.A. Dickey
The # knuckleball
The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it’s like to let go.
R.A. Dickey
I had a wife
I had a wife that did not want me to have a singular regret about chasing my dream, which helped me tremendously. I did not want to have a singular regret. I always held out hope that it was going to turn for the better. That’s always what motivated me was hope.
R.A. Dickey