"Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width."

-- Bill Veeck

#Basketball Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Football Quotes

“Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.”
“I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were but half expanded and half grown, but the blossom was spread full out. I uprooted it rashly, and I felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. It will have but a stormy life of it, but let it live if it can.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.61, Oxford University Press
“Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and to affluence which is the abundant flow of all good things to you.”

Source : Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.8, Amber-Allen Publishing
“I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.”
“Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.”
“I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.”
“I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.”

You may also like:

Branch Rickey
Baseball player
Casey Stengel
Baseball Manager
Harry Caray
Announcer
Jackie Robinson
Baseball player
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Commissioner of Baseball
Larry Doby
Baseball player
Lou Boudreau
Baseball player
Paul Dickson
Writer
Satchel Paige
Baseball player