John Eskow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

  • There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

  • It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

  • Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

  • My music lives because of real players.

  • I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

  • I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  • I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.

  • But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

  • Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.