Andrew Zimbalist famous quotes

The market's been soft, .. and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.
-- Andrew Zimbalist

#Thinking #Agreement #Results

Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .
-- Andrew Zimbalist

#Crazy #Cards #Tables

Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.
-- Andrew Zimbalist

#Thinking #Chance

I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.
-- Andrew Zimbalist

#Baseball #Mistake #Thinking

Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are [profitable] in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide $450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.
-- Andrew Zimbalist

#Baseball #Team #Eight

People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
-- Andrew Zimbalist

#Baseball #Thinking #People

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism...

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

If you want different results, do not do the same things.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.