"I felt what I almost always feel when……" — 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 place I would rather be."
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22 Quotes by Roger Angell
Roger Angell has 22 quotes on this site.
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a…
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as…
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Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear…
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn…
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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the…
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I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more…
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More Almost Always Quotes
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm…
— Albert Camus
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
— John Hospers
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Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and…
— Joyce Meyer
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
— Jean Cocteau
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
— Luc de Clapiers
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This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.
— David Bach
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