Cory Lidle Quotes

• I’ve learned over the years that it doesn’t matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

  Cory Lidle

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  Tags in Everything, Matter, Learned

• I want to win as much as anybody. But what am I supposed to do? Go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?

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  Tags in Apartment, Supposed

• Yeah, it’s risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

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  Tags in Car, Risky, Driving

• Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excited, Thinking, Mentally

• On the days I’m pitching, it’s almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Play, Behind, Pitching

• I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

  Cory Lidle

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Good, Friends, Thing

• Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn’t go there with one goal in mind.

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  Tags in Mind, Kind, Sometimes

• Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

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  Tags in Really, Learn

• The flying? I’m not worried about it. I’m safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

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  Tags in Comfortable, Worried, Feel

• I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

  Cory Lidle

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Weight, Guys

• Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you’re up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

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  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Usually, Something, Percent

• If I don’t make the team out of spring training, I’ll keep a good attitude. I’ll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

  Cory Lidle

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Good, Training, Spring

• You’ve never seen Manhattan ’til you’ve flown right up the East River. It’s beautiful.

  Cory Lidle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Seen

• You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don’t think about baseball. You don’t think about anything. It’s just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

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  Tags in Think, Everything, Something

Cory Lidle (14)

Birth:	22nd March, 1972
Death:	11th October, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Cory Fulton Lidle was born in Hollywood, California. He was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, Lidle spent nine seasons in Major League Baseball with seven different teams. Cory was very active in West Covina baseball leagues playing at West Covina American Little League, 1980-1984, West Covina Mustang Pony 1985-1986, West Covina Mickey Mantle1987-1988 and West Covina Babe Ruth 1989-1990. Lidle was killed when the small aircraft he owned crashed into a residential building in New York City.

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