"I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball."

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Pedro Martinez

#Baseball Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.”
“Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.”
“It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.”

Source : FaceBook post by Edward Burns from Sep 29, 2011
“When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.”
“Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.”
“From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.”

Source : "Brazil: One Man's Cup of Coffee", content.time.com. June 30, 1961.
“If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God cannot be written.”
“And a noble life is one ordered by, and oriented to, a transcendent moral code, not just one's own concept of existence and meaning and truth. ...if we want a society that reveres life, that defends the family, and that discourages delinquency and promotes decency, we cannot force a privatization of religion; we must allow the truth-claims of religious faith to be uttered aloud in the public square.”

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