D. B. Sweeney Quotes

"Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up."

"You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down."

"I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can."

"Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do."

"I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me."

"If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity."

"I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want."

"There's nobility in hard work, traditional values."

"I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton."

"'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G."

"When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character."

"Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate."

"You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it."

"All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content."

"The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned."

"With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold."

"I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia."

"The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies."

"Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?"

"I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there."

"Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome."

"It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around."

"Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this."

"I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky."

"As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me."

"What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good."

"If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels."

"Say something personal, not from a publicist."

"Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make."

"I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti."