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> [The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/the-only-real-happiness-a-ballplayer-has-is-when-he-is-playing-a-ball/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

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## More by Ring Lardner

> [Shut up,' he explained.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/shut-up-he-explained/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/walter-mayer-was-a-hero-at-a-salvation-army-home-fire-in-cincinnati/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/the-only-real-happiness-a-ballplayer-has-is-when-he-is-playing-a-ball/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [“Are you lost, Daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/are-you-lost-daddy-i-asked-tenderly-shut-up-he-explained/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/this-story-is-slightly-immoral-but-so-i-guess-are-stories-based-on/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/i-ve-known-what-it-is-to-be-hungry-but-i-always-went-right-to-a/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [“Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/although-he-is-a-very-poor-fielder-he-is-a-very-poor-hitter/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [They gave each other a smile with a future in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/they-gave-each-other-a-smile-with-a-future-in-it/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/no-one-ever-wrote-anything-as-well-even-after-one-drink-as-he-would/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/a-good-many-young-writers-make-the-mistake-of-enclosing-a-stamped/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/some-like-them-hot-some-like-them-cold-some-like-them-when-they-re/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/he-looked-at-me-as-if-i-were-a-side-dish-he-hadn-t-ordered/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [“Then we quit jokeing and he says You have improved a hole lot”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/then-we-quit-jokeing-and-he-says-you-have-improved-a-hole-lot/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [“Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/mr-fitzgerald-is-a-novelist-and-mrs-fitzgerald-is-a-novelty/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

> [“He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ring-lardner/he-looked-at-me-as-if-i-was-a-side-dish-he-hadn-t-ordered/)

[Ring Lardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ring-lardner/)

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