"In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's."

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Source : Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

Ernie Harwell

#Baseball Quotes #Team Quotes #Book Quotes

“A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.”
“Lynching is color line murder.”
“Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.”
“I always thought of this as God's country.”
“I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.”
“Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.”
“This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.”
“You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...”

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