quotes

“Children reinvent your world for you.” Susan Sarandon

“Whether you won or lost the night before, it's a brand new game ... It's my job and my coaches’ job to remind the players that no matter what happened last night, it doesn't mean anything today. This is not like football where you have to wait one week to recover. You just have to get up every day and fight. If you carry it over, you're a loser.” Ozzie Guillon, manager of the 2005 World Champions

“Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.” Ken Harrelson, Sports Illustrated, 6 September 1976

“Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.” Anonymous

“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.” Jim Murray

“I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.” Rogers Hornsby

“Don't water your weeds.” Harvey Mackay

“No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.” Mercelene Cox

“When things go wrong, don't go with them.” Anonymous

“The real essence of work is concentrated energy.” Walter Begehot

“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” May Sarton

“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

“The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.” Raoul Vaneigem

“Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest, For time will teach thee soon the truth, ‘There are no birds in last year's nest.’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” Albert Einstein

“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.” Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)

“The best way out is always through.” Robert Frost, US poet (1874 - 1963)

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller, novelist (1923-1999)

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” Naguib Mahfouz, writer (1911- )

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou