"But wherever I was I played baseball. That's all I lived for. When I sat up on the front seat of that covered wagon next to my father, I was wearing a baseball glove. That showed anybody who was interested where I wanted to go."

-- Smoky Joe Wood

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“When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.”
“Does freedom have a meaning if you're trapped in your ways?”
“My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.”
“If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.”
“Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.”
“There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.”

Source : "The King v. Woodfall" (1774), Lofft. 782 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 178-180), 1904.
“This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.”
“If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun”

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