Quote of the day thread

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

James Patrick Murray
 
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby
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H is for Hornsby;
When pitching to Rog,
The pitcher would pitch,
Then the pitcher would dodge.
— Ogden Nash,
 
3/31/2011

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Witman

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Man that ball got outta here in a hurry. I mean anything travels that far oughta have a d*mn stewardess on it, don't you think?

- Crash Davis
 
4/1/2011

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962

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I offer discounts to all players, teams and coaches who hail from the states of Kentucky, North Carolina and Connecticut. This comes from the compassion and generosity of my heart and soul for causing you all so much pain, agony and hate over my four year career at Duke!!

taken from the Christian Laettner Basketball Academy website
 
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams
 
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course...the space between your ears.

- Bobby Jones
 
4/4/2011

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

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4/5/2011

Upon the field of friendly strife are sown the seeds, that on other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory
- Gen Douglas MacArthur

(Gen Neyland read this quote at the end of his speech at his retirement dinner)

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Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.
- Stonewall Jackson

His last words on his death bed
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Out into the cool of the evening, strolls the pretender,

Who started out so young and strong, only to surrender.

- Jackson Browne
 
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

-Horace Walpole
 
4/6/2011

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
- William Faulkner

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4/6/2011

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
- William Faulkner

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I have had drink for over eight hours, come damn close making love, and manage to loaf for about 18 hours most ever day.
 
I have had drink for over eight hours, come damn close making love, and manage to loaf for about 18 hours most ever day.

Well my friend, I'm glad your work day consist of that. I was up to my hips in red clay mud and water all day today but the people of buzzard creek road are back in water lol. I have a drink to that lol
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