"Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you."

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Source : Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

Leo Durocher

#Baseball Quotes #Giving Quotes #Diving Quotes

“When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.”
“The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.”
“We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be something more than just another girl who has one. We should be able to do these things without failing the feminism of our mothers, and we should be able to represent women who hurt without walking backward into a voyeuristic rehashing of the old cultural models.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.174, Granta Books
“I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.”

Source : Kenneth Cole (2003). “Footnotes: What You Stand for is More Important Than what You Stand in”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
“Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.”
“No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.”
“And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.”
“The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.”

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