Richard Gilman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.
-- Richard Gilman

#Baseball #Games #Ghost
I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.
-- Richard Gilman

#Past #Want #Poor
I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.
-- Richard Gilman

#Teacher #Drama #Writing
Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.
-- Richard Gilman

#Sports #Real #Fans
There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.
-- Richard Gilman

#Appreciation #Dancer #Desire

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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.
Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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.
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
Let us honor the Holy Ghost.
Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!
But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

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