Enos Slaughter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.
-- Enos Slaughter

#Baseball #Cutting #Years
From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.
-- Enos Slaughter

#Spots #Ran
I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.
-- Enos Slaughter

#Balls #Fields #Walks
I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.
-- Enos Slaughter

#Running #Odds #Giving
To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.
-- Enos Slaughter

#Player #Games #League

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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.
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.
My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of a voice. Try to find the head of a voice, the orifice through which it passes, or even the breasts to which you can attach the clips of your electrodes. Nothing. Resonant tooth.
If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'
This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

Enos Slaughter famous quotes

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