Ira Berkow famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.
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All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.
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The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
-- Ira Berkow
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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.
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Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I Can't win the World Cup alone
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We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
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Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
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I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.
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Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?
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I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
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