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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 team people
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw. Michael Lewis
baseball running home
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it. Michael Lewis
baseball play red
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. Michael Lewis
baseball culture speak
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. Michael Lewis
baseball volleyball eye
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record Michael Lewis
baseball tradition profit
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time. Michael Lewis
baseball athletic terrible
I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. Matt Long
baseball careers league
I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable. Matt Diaz
great learn
There is a lot we can learn from Brazil. They are doing great things, Gal Luft
great man reason stand teacher today written
The reason I stand before you today the man I am is because of my brother. A lot has been written about what a great teacher Dick was. He was my teacher. He was more than a brother. He was more than a friend. He was a mentor. Butch Harmon
great
There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage. Judy Gold
great theory work
Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus of an outfit... So, that's what I set out to do. Stacey Bendet
great rests terror turning wonderful
There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not. Domhnall Gleeson
great tournament won
We had a great year. We won the regular-season championship, we won the tournament and we won 27 games. You can't take that away. We accomplished a lot. Mo Charlo
great trying understanding
We had a great understanding of what we were trying to accomplish. But we do understand we have a long way to go. Herb Sendek
great kids perfect ran turn
We had a great turn out, we had perfect weather, and all the kids ran great today, Amy Stewart
great national rankings seventh
We had a great tournament. The new national rankings should put us about seventh or eighth. Jim Koch
player thinking games
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. C. S. Lewis
players spoken
You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have. Roy Keane
player thinking judging
Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them. Ned Colletti
playing shoots team
When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively. Tubby Smith