"Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision."

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Source : Roger Angell (2013). “Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion”, p.5, Open Road Media

Roger Angell

#Beautiful Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Distance Quotes

“An alternate explanation is not a refutation.”
“The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.”
“The heart of our karate is real fighting.There can be no proof without real fighting. Without proof there is no trust. Without trust there is no respect. This is a definition in the world of martial arts.”
“I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.”
“There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.”
“Shall I project a world?”
“Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.”
“As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.”

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