"The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good."

-- Dizzy Dean

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“You canâ€™t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.”
“I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me”
“The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.”
“My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.”
“Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique”
“We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.”
“That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.”
“There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army were adamantly opposed to freeing slaves. We cite these facts and recorded statistics to point out that the principal cause of the war was not the issue of slavery.”

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