"And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'"

-- John Thorn

#Baseball Quotes #Running Quotes #Player Quotes

“If you want to do something, do it!”
“One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.”
“Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.”
“Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.”
“Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.”
“Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.”
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff”
“I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 216), March 24, 1966.

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