Fred Claire famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.
-- Fred Claire

#Baseball #Games #Lines

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.
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
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.
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

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