Jerry Izenberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.
-- Jerry Izenberg

#Baseball #Spring #Games
Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
-- Jerry Izenberg

#Violence #Intention
People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling.
-- Jerry Izenberg

#Sports #Home #Pride

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.
I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

Jerry Izenberg famous quotes

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