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Roger Angell has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object…
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is…
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our…
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This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be…
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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…
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I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I…
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The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
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Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the…
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Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow…
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Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and…
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in…
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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive,…
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become…
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
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Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,…
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Ladies and Gentlemen this fellow combines the classic stylings of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp....that's…
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I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.
— Morris Chestnut
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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish…
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