"Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows……" — Thomas Boswell
"Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years."
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26 Quotes by Thomas Boswell
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I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I…
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At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play.…
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Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat…
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When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
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When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun…
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In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has…
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Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So,…
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Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem…
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Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man,…
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A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.
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Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
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I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say:…
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More Anecdotes Quotes
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Lord Chesterfield
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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have…
— Carl Sagan
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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
— Charlotte Gray
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Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied…
— Bill Cosby
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and…
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