"Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me."

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Source : Maury Wills, Steve Gardner (1963). “It pays to steal”

Maury Wills

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“Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.”
“Being Chinese immigrants in the United States, it was important for my parents to maintain ties that went back a long time. They led by example. My dad didn't bring his work pressures home. We were always aware of them and would go as kids to his office and run around. But when he came home, he was able to leave things behind, at least from our perspective, and focus on us.”
“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”
“I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.”
“I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.”
“Begin building the future through "conversation for possibility."”
“With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!”
“Which is bigger? A baby eagle or a giant crow?”

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