"What really makes baseball so hard is it's……" — Roger Angell
"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 that attends every game."
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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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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,…
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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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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like…
— Zebulon Pike
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance…
— Teresa of Avila
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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has…
— Seneca the Younger
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What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
— John Wolcot
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises,…
— Confucius
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes…
— Mencius
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I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me…
— Tim Duncan
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Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's…
— Vasily Grossman
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Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it…
— Steve Buyer
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