Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
