Harold Reynolds famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?
-- Harold Reynolds

#Baseball #Running #Statistics
I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.
-- Harold Reynolds

#Mom #Baseball #Jobs
When you're hot, it's fair, when you're not, it's foul.
-- Harold Reynolds

#Hot #Foul #Fairs

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.
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
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.
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.
You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

Harold Reynolds famous quotes

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