A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes, Baseball Quotes, Home Quotes

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

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There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.

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I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.

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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

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If you don't know where you're going any road will do

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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

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In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

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Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

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I think it's really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to - the beauty of playing baseball.

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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

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That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

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At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

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You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

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