"Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown."

-- Lou Boudreau

#Knowing Quotes #Anticipation Quotes #Thrown Quotes

“I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.
“These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly ... if you have ever seen the great women s teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's never a matter of laziness or inability. It's just a matter of believing that what I'm doing is worthwhile, that it matters.I just make myself work. I just make myself go to work, whether I feel like it or not.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Smoke that herb and clear your mind.”
“I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.”
“In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”
“I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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