"Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks."

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Source : Christy Mathewson, John Neville Wheeler (1994). “Pitching in a Pinch, Or, Baseball from the Inside”, p.233, U of Nebraska Press

Christy Mathewson

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“Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.”
“God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.”
“Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.”
“Let brothers and sisters from one end of the world, speak in all brotherly love, all affection, and one sweetness, to their brothers and sisters in the other extremity of the world. Then we shall succeed in rearing up one vast cathedral in this world, where men of all nations and races shall glorify the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.”

Source : Sermon preached at Mill-hill Chapel, Leeds, August 28, 1870.
“The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.”
“President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.”
“Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I”
“I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.”

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