Rick Monday famous quotes

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
-- Rick Monday

#Baseball #Giggle

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.
-- Rick Monday

#Baseball #Thinking #Concerned

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

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

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

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.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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.

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

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

The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.