Joe Morgan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.
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To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me." I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.
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To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.
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I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.
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Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.
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I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.
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What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.
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Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.
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He (Frank Robinson as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.
-- Joe Morgan
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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.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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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.
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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.
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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
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The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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