"We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans."

-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

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“Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.”
“When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ***** and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.”
“Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.”

Source : Song: Post World War Two Blues, Album: Past, Present and Future, 1973
“Victory passes back and forth between men.”
“We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.”

Source : "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by M. Samuel, 1948.
“I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When we run these big trade deficits and send our jobs offshore, we hold our wages down and our income down. That feeds right back into the biggest part of this whole equation, consumption. This drags GDP down as well.”
“Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life.”

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