A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.”
Ty Cobb
Tag: Quote of the Day
21JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.”
Babe Ruth
20JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.”
Babe Ruth
19JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.”
Babe Ruth
17JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
“Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.”
Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy must have been old when he wrote this. He’s leaving out a very important ingredient.
16JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
This one is clever and true.
15JUNE2018 – Quote of the Day
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
Leo Tolstoy
14JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”
Leo Tolstoy
This skill has always escaped me.
13JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Still true and getting truer every day.