Favorite Quotes

[GreatLakesGramma]

Sin will take you further than you ever meant to go, keep you longer than you ever meant to stay,and cost you more than you ever meant to pay. - unknown

[GreatLakesGramma]

There’s no such thing as saver’s remorse. - on ING accounts page

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More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ~Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports

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Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955

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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. ~Mickey Mantle

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[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there. ~Ray Miller

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Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? ~Larry Anderson

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ~Author Unknown

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Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. ~Dick Gregory

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Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles

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It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL! ~Herbert H. Paper, in Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 April 1989

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I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck

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I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. ~Sandy Koufax

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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ~Warren Spahn

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Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. ~Woodie Held

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Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel. ~Roger Simon, 1988

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You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning. ~Bob Sarlette

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The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck. ~Andre Dawson, on Montreal

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A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. ~William C. Feather

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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, 1990

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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ~Jackie Robinson

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The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. ~Chuck Tanner, quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985

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Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955

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Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

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Pitchers, like poets, are born not made. ~Cy Young