“If you go to a different ballpark, I know it's 60 feet, 6 inches from the rubber the plate, but the backgrounds are much different. Some plates look like they're closer than others. Some mounds are different than others. I really don't know ... there's no excuse.”
Brandon Backe
“My back foot slipped off the back of the rubber, and once my feet gave way, I started to throw the pitch anyway, and my mind said, change real quick, don't lob one up there and let the guy hit it out, ... I went ahead and took that one on the chin.”
Roy Oswalt
“We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.”
Peter De Vries
“He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.”
Alan K. Simpson
“A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.”
Charles Krauthammer
“These things aren't indestructible. They are made out of rubber. Every passenger car sold in the United States is sold with a spare tire, and they're sold with a spare tire for a reason.”
Christine Karbowiak
“is not a rubber stamp.”
Sam Brownback