"Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps."

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Roger Angell

#Sports Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Slumps Quotes

“Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.”

Source : "More Giants of the Genre". Book by Michael McCarty, 2004.
“If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.”
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”
“The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.”
“Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.”

Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan
“Football is unconditional love.”
“I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.”
“I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.”

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