Walter O'Malley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.
-- Walter O'Malley

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I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.
-- Walter O'Malley

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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
Being a foreigner is not a disease.
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.
But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Walter O'Malley famous quotes

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