"The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving."

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Source : "Oh, Baby, I Love It!". Book by Ray Robinson and Tim McCarver, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1987.

Tim McCarver

#Sports Quotes #Country Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.”
“What I do is more than just the clothes. It's getting out whatever is inside that's screaming the loudest. I wouldn't call it therapeutic. It's not that conscious.”
“[On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.”
“I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.”
“Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.”
“Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.”
“If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?”
“You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.”

Source : Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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