Burt Shotton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
-- Burt Shotton

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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.
It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.

Burt Shotton famous quotes

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