John M. Culkin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.
-- John M. Culkin

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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
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.
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

John M. Culkin famous quotes

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