Joaquin Andujar famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • 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.

  • You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

  • 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.

  • Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

  • Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

  • Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

  • The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.

  • The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

  • This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

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