Johnny Vander Meer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.
Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, â€œThat guy is kinda delusional.â€
When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
I'm not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.
I've always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.

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