Amateur Quote by Larry MacPhail Download Open image “The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.” — Larry MacPhail ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amateur Amateur Spirit Baseball Baseball Amateur Big Big Tragedy Extent Gone Large Out Religion Spirit Spirit Gone Tragedy Tragedy Baseball
The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it.The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it -… — David Wright Copy Share Image
These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while. — George Pataki Copy Share Image
There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people,… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
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… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I think this is a sport where we can really challenge all of ourselves as baseball fans, as baseball players, even the casual viewers.… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are… — Ralph Kiner Copy Share Image
The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average… — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance… — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church… — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year… — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland… — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as… — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all. — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
“The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.” — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do… — James Agate Copy Share Image
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
“The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.” — Alan Sheinwald Copy Share Image
I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be surprised how… — Keegan Bradley Copy Share Image