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base coming mike rule third
Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up. Bobby Valentine
baseball football country
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. Bobby Fischer
baseball writing two
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before. John Thorn
baseball powerful past
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year. John Thorn
baseball dream hero
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. John Thorn
baseball player games
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. John Thorn
baseball brotherhood would-be
Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed. John Thorn
baseball writing crafts
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective. John Thorn
baseball attitude player
I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance. John Rocker
running art way
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart Charles Bukowski
running pain motivation
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain. Christopher McDougall
running prayer sacrifice
-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own. Christopher McDougall
running things-in-life long
When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what love--just being a barbarian, running through the woods. Christopher McDougall
running animal race
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest. Christopher McDougall
running mean heart
Running is the heart of what it means to be human. Christopher McDougall
running struggle fall
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak... just like life. Christopher McDougall
running good-times scared
We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. Christopher McDougall
running winning advice
I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard. Christopher McDougall