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Bad Quotes

Straight talk about the bad stretches.

These quotes cover a pitcher accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, a squad's uneasy feelings over uneven pay, and a nod to how poor choices tend to drive horror-film plots. For the flip side of tough moments, see Good.

I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.

Quotes by Alex Sharp

I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.

Quotes by Alex Sharp

That's what you want; that's what you want to play for: fans that are in it and want it as bad as you do.

Quotes by Alex Smith

The scripts of 'The Wire' are fantastic - the scripts of 'Breaking Bad,' the scripts of 'Mad Men,' the scripts of 'The Sopranos,' the scripts of 'Battlestar Galactica.' You could keep going on. They're incredibly well written.

Quotes by Alex Garland

Now, unfortunately, some prissy card-carrying members of the U.S. Constitution have made us all look bad by pointing out that many of the Gitmo detainees weren't guilty of anything. Whoops!

Quotes by Alex Gibney

The best place to use vanilla beans is anywhere where they won't be mixed in with a million other flavors. Anything with dairy, yogurt, milk, cream, or eggs - any custard or flan - how can it be bad?

Quotes by Alex Guarnaschelli

The Emanuels are Jewish mafia. It's not that Jews are bad. It's just that they are the head of the Jewish mafia in the United States.

Quotes by Alex Jones

The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.

Quotes by Alessandro Michele

Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.

Quotes by Alex Berenson

At the end of the day, I know I'm a good person, so I'm not worried about anything bad that could happen on the Internet.

Quotes by Alex Bregman

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

Quotes by Alex Chilton

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Aldous Huxley

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Quotes by Aleksandar Hemon

Macri didn't understand anything. It wasn't a bad election, it was a terrible government.

Quotes by Alberto Fernandez

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can...

Quotes by Alberto Salazar

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower...

Quotes by Alden Ehrenreich

No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, years.

Quotes by Alden Ehrenreich

I listen to some really bad country.

Quotes by Alden Ehrenreich

I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genre, there are these cold, aloof guys. If you start thinking that's the ideal guy when you're 13, by the time you're 25, you're going...

Quotes by Alden Ehrenreich

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about pitching through injury?
Yes. One quote is blunt about it: "Sooner or later the arm goes bad." It's a frank look at the physical toll of a long pitching career, going on to note that sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain. For more honest reflections on tough experiences, see Feel quotes.
Does this page include a quote about the spitball in baseball?
Yes - one quote admits, "I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad." It's a candid, self-aware confession about bending the rules under pressure.
Is there a quote about salary fairness on a sports team?
Yes. One quote argues it would be bad for the squad if one player had a much higher salary than the rest - a comment on how pay gaps can affect team unity. For more on group dynamics and everyday life, browse Life quotes.
Does this collection touch on horror movies?
Yes - one quote notes: "Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films." It's a neat summary of what usually drives the plot in that genre. See Good quotes for more sharp observations like this.
What does "bad" mean across these quotes?
It covers a lot of ground here - a pitching arm wearing down, bending the rules under pressure, salary fairness on a team, and the bad luck that drives horror movie plots. For more quotes on recurring, everyday themes, check out Always quotes.

What links them is a plainspoken acceptance that bad outcomes happen, rather than dramatic complaint. If you're after emotional reactions to hard times, try Feel or general Life.