"He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul."

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Source : "My MLB All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium Commemorative Interview with Mickey Rivers". Interview with Dave Hollander, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2008.

Mickey Rivers

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“I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.”
“Intent and service-that is my motto.”
“Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.”
“pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand -- and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know ...”
“Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.”

Source : Eileen Myles (2016). “I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014”, p.138, Profile Books
“The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them”
“The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.”
“Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen.”

Source : Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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