Charlie Manuel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.
-- Charlie Manuel

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I won't quit on a player who doesn't quit on himself.
-- Charlie Manuel

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I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back.
-- Charlie Manuel

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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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.
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Charlie Manuel famous quotes

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