Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead."
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George Will
Political Commentator, Author
"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal."
Denzel Washington
Actor, Director
"Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success."
Ted Williams
Baseball Player
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."
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"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'"
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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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"They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball."
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"Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson."
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"Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection."
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"Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever."
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"You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass."
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"The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love."
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"Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you."
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"If you don't know where you're going any road will do"
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"The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level."
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"We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music."
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"I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater."
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"Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come."
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"Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life."
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"A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'"
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"If you don t know where you are, a map won't help."
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"In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard."
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"I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit."
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"I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else."
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