Sustaining Quotes by Roger Angell

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,…

— Roger Angell

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and…

— Roger Angell

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and…

— Roger Angell

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even…

— Roger Angell

“my favorite urban flower, the baseball box score”

— Roger Angell

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.

— Roger Angell

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more…

— Roger Angell

Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This…

— Roger Angell

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no…

— Roger Angell

I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver…

— Roger Angell

Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of…

— Roger Angell

Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the dugout with…

— Roger Angell