"More than any other American sport, baseball creates……" — Thomas Boswell
"More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood."
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26 Quotes by Thomas Boswell
Thomas Boswell has 26 quotes on this site.
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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 Addictive Quotes
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
— Graydon Carter
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to…
— Eric Clapton
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Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
— Loni Anderson
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
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Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
— Marc Anthony
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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar.…
— Warren Buffett
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence.…
— Richard G. Scott
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Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless.…
— James E. Faust
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