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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.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

Quotes by Mike Judge

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Quotes by Mike Krzyzewski

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good...

Quotes by Mike Leigh

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

Quotes by Mike Figgis

The silliest, most frustrating national dialogue has been this chattering about waterboarding and slapping around bad guys in order to extract information from them.

Quotes by Mike Gallagher

Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.

Quotes by Mike D

Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.

Quotes by Mike Bartlett

I wrote a very bad play about Prince William when I was 23 in which he went off to the island of Iona to discover himself. It was very long, and audiences should probably be very pleased that the computer...

Quotes by Mike Bartlett

The only tweets I feel bad about are the fat-chick ones.

Quotes by Mike Cernovich

It's too bad we can't take VA leadership and export it and give it to some of our adversaries around the planet. Let them suffer under VA's leadership.

Quotes by Mike Coffman

I think that as television is evolving, the line between TV and film is becoming more and more blurred. This is both a good and bad thing.

Quotes by Miguel Sapochnik

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

Quotes by Mika

On a scale out of five, with one being very bad and five being very good, House of Fraser is a one.

Quotes by Mike Ashley

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Quotes by Mickey Kaus

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Quotes by Mickey Mantle

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

Quotes by Mickey Mantle

We yelled, mostly, but bad enough that you wanted to fight. That's how we became winners. We fought each other. When you did something wrong, we'd tell you about it.

Quotes by Mickey Rivers

If you strike out or look bad on the field, we'd get on each other. If you can't take the heat, you gotta get out of the kitchen.

Quotes by Mickey Rivers

Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped.

Quotes by Mickey Rooney

I could never see Jeff Hardy as a bad guy, because I just want to hug him. He's an awesome person and super multi-talented.

Quotes by Mickie James

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.