"Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park."

-- Satchel Paige

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“I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.”
“Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better fighter and a better athlete at 40Â½ years old, but I'm at my best when I know I've got to beat the system again.”
“Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.”
“The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.”
“The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.”
“Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.”
“Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.”
“Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.”

Source : Tamora Pierce (2011). “Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales”, p.61, Random House Books for Young Readers

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