All Roger Angell Quotes
- Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's… Any
- I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place… Almost Always
- Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification… Attention
- 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 warming.… Admirable
- What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course,… Accrue
- I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to… Afraid
- The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked. Basically Overlooked
- 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 tears… All
- Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as… Began
- Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find… Brimming
- Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining… Bad
- Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have… Alive
- I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames,… Bad
- We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost… All
- Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time. All
- The best defense against partisanship is expertise. Best
- Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and… Baseball
- Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all… All
- 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, its… Athlete
- What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat… Attends
- I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in… Baseball
- Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do -… All