"Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay."

-- William Feather

#Baseball Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Men Quotes

“Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.”
“Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2002). “Up in the Air: A Novel”, p.10, Anchor
“On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.”
“Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.”
“Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.”
“I wake up every day with a smile on my face.”
“Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.”

Source : Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster
“Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them.”

Source : Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.168, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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