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Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.
Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to read more
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
Are you any relation to your brother Marv?
(spoken to announcer Steve Albert)
Are you any relation to your brother Marv?
(spoken to announcer Steve Albert)
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the read more
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind read more
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced read more
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.
